Bacteriophage (phage) are obligate intracellular viruses that specifically infect bacteria. Here we take an overview of their structure, life-cycle and the role they have played in advancing science ...

They infect specific bacteria and use host machinery to replicate via lytic or lysogenic cycles. 2 For therapeutic purposes, scientists typically prefer lytic (virulent) phages over lysogenic ...

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Mckenzie, Samuel. (2019, January 24). Temperate Bacteriophages and the Lysogenic Cycle.

Please use one of the following formats to cite this article in your essay, paper or report: APA. Simmons, Hannah. (2019, January 22). Virulent Bacteriophages and the Lytic Cycle.

Depending on the life cycle of the phage, this lysis can occur either soon after the initiation of infection (lytic cycle) or instead following lengthy periods of delay (lysogenic cycle).

Optimized phage cocktails. The scale of the threat to public health posed by antibiotic resistance was indicated by a 2022 article in The Lancet. 3 “[This article noted] that more than 1.2 ...

Depending on the environmental conditions, conversion to a lytic replication cycle is possible. Phage therapy uses lytic phages to kill AMR bacteria.

The phage genome can exist indefinitely in this prophage state. If the DNA is damaged, the lytic cycle is induced, and new phage particles are produced, which can then lyse the host bacterial cell.