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What is a bacteriophage?

What is a bacteriophage? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (microbiology, virology) A virus that specifically infects bacteria.
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Transmission electron micrograph of Campylobacter jejuni bacteriophage whose genome sequence was recently solved.
In 1964 he ascertained that the T4 bacteriophage had a circular genetic map and that its DNA was circularly permuted.
We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.
In 1917, d' Herelle had discovered a self-propagating filterable substance capable of dissolving dysentery bacilli, later identified as bacteriophage.
The fact that both mammalian viruses and bacteriophage show this loss of pentons indicates the universality of the instability of these interactions.
A bacteriophage is a virus that attacks bacteria but which is generally harmless to human beings.

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