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UK
/bæktˈiəɹɪˌɒfɪdʒ/
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NOUN
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a virus that is parasitic (reproduces itself) in bacteria
phage uses the bacterium's machinery and energy to produce more phage until the bacterium is destroyed and phage is released to invade surrounding bacteria
How To Use bacteriophage In A Sentence
- We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.
- When the bacteriophage was discovered, this was a turning point for bacteriology, but phages long remained the concern of medical bacteriologists.
- Returning to Melbourne in 1927, he concentrated on bacteriophage studies, making seminal discoveries in lysogeny and bacterial genetics. 4 However, in January The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
- Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria.
- The clincher for me was an optional evening laboratory in bacteriophage genetics taught by Bob Edgar and Charlie Steinberg. Leland H. Hartwell - Autobiography
- A bacteriophage is a virus that attacks bacteria but which is generally harmless to human beings.
- One bacterium thus divided 19 times without liberating bacteriophages, and the daughter bacteria were still lysogenic. André Lwoff - Nobel Lecture
- The fact that both mammalian viruses and bacteriophage show this loss of pentons indicates the universality of the instability of these interactions.
- Conclusion: MB photochemical method can inactivate bacteriophage f 2 , HIV - 1 and Japanese encephalitis virus in blood effectively.
- In 1917, d' Herelle had discovered a self-propagating filterable substance capable of dissolving dysentery bacilli, later identified as bacteriophage.
