A bacteriophage (/ bækˈtɪərioʊfeɪdʒ /), also known informally as a phage (/ ˈfeɪdʒ /), is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea. The term is derived from Ancient Greek …

Phage therapy, viral phage therapy, or phagotherapy is the therapeutic use of bacteriophages for the treatment of pathogenic bacterial infections. [1][2][3] This therapeutic approach emerged at …

Mar 28, 2022 · Bacteriophage or Phage is a virus that infects and replicates only within the body of bacteria. Bacteriophage Models- λ phage and T4 phage.

Mar 21, 2025 · During infection a phage attaches to a bacterium and inserts its genetic material into the cell. After that a phage usually follows one of two life cycles, lytic (virulent) or lysogenic …

In this article we describe the roles of phages in different host systems and show how modeling, microscopy, isolation, genomic and metagenomic based approaches have come together to …

Feb 3, 2020 · In this Review, we explore phage diversity at the structural, genomic and community levels as well as the complex evolutionary relationships between phages, moulded by the …

Bacteriophages “bacteria-eater” are infectious agents that replicate as obligate intracellular parasites in bacteria with high selectivity. They are the powerful regulators of bacterial …

Mar 17, 2025 · The baseplate anchors the phage to the host cell and initiates genome injection. In complex tailed phages like T4, it functions as a dynamic molecular machine, undergoing …

Bacteriophages occupy a unique position in biology, representing an absolute majority of all organisms in the biosphere. Because their genomes are relatively small, elucidating the …

Apr 7, 2025 · The original BASEL phage collection had been composed of 68 new handpicked phage isolates that we characterized alongside a panel of 10 well-studied model phages such …