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Bacteriophage Summary
954 words, approx. 3 pages
A bacteriophage, or phage, is a virus that infects a bacterial cell, taking over the host cell's genetic material, reproducing itself, and eventually destroying the bacterium. The word phage comes from the Greek word phagein which means to eat....
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Bacteriophage and Bacteriophage Typing Summary
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A bacteriophage, or phage, is a virus that infects a bacterial cell, taking over the host cell's genetic material, reproducing itself, and eventually destroying the bacterium. The word phage comes from the Greek word phagein, meaning "to eat."...
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Phage Genetics Summary
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Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are useful in the study of how genes function. The attributes of bacteriophages include their small size and simplicity of genetic organization. The most intensively studied bacteriophage is the phage...
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Phage Type : Environmental Health Terms
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A variety of bacteria within a single species determined by its differential response to a range of parasitic bacterial viruses known as bacteriophages. An individual strain of bacteria is frequently susceptible to attack by several bacteriophages, the...
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Bacteriophage Information
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A bacteriophage (from 'bacteria' and Greek phagein, 'to eat') is any one of a number of viruses that infect bacteria. The term is commonly used in its shortened form, phage. Typically, bacteriophages consist of an outer protein hull enclosing genetic...
 


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Newsweek International
Superbug Killers.(bacteriophages)
12/17/2001: 1,142 words, approx. 4 pages
Alfred Gertler had never been so ill. In 1997 the 45-year-old jazz musician was hiking in Costa Rica when he fell and broke his ankle. He contracted a staphylococcus infection so severe that flare-ups kept him in bed for weeks at a time....
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Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
Viral bacteriophages.(Shorts)(Brief article)
01/01/2008: 431 words, approx. 1 pages
The FDA approved a mixture of six lytic bacteriophages for use on hot dogs, cold cuts, and deli meats in August 2006. Bacteriophages are viruses that target a specific bacterium to use as a breeding ground. Lytic phages multiply until the bacterial membrane...
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AP Features
FDA Says Viruses Safe for Treating Meat
8/18/2006: 526 words, approx. 2 pages
A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as...
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FDA Approves Viruses for Treating Food
8/19/2006: 526 words, approx. 2 pages
A mix of bacteria-killing viruses can be safely sprayed on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages to combat common microbes that kill hundreds of people a year, federal health officials said Friday in granting the first-ever approval of viruses as...
 


 

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