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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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When the bacteriophage was discovered, this was a turning point for bacteriology, but phages long remained the concern of medical bacteriologists.
The diagram below at right shows a virus that attacks bacteria, known as the lambda bacteriophage, which measures roughly 200 nanometers.
He said they do not think using bacteriophage as an indicator is a good methodology because depuration may not remove viruses.
A bacteriophage is a virus that only infects bacteria, they don't infect any human tissue.
Also, it is the surface receptor of the virus, bacteriophage lambda.
We saw in the previous sections that packaged bacteriophage capsids are pressurized with pressures as high as 60 atm.

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