Thereafter, the phage utilizes the host's machinery to synthesize multiple copies of itself. If the infecting phage is virulent, the infection follows a lytic cycle, or for temperate phages, a ...

Bacteriophages, or phages, viruses that selectively target and infect bacteria, have drawn growing attention for their ...

Briefly, the authors show that heat stress increases the tolerance of Klebsiella pneumoniae to infection by the lytic phage Kp11. They also argue that this increased tolerance facilitates the ...

The lytic cycle starts with viral particle attachment to the bacterial cell surface and the injection of viral DNA. Using the host machinery, viral DNA is amplified, and phage proteins are synthesized ...

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