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Temperate and lysogenic infection: Are they the same?

November 28, 2022

Lysogenic cycle Lysogenic infection An infection that results in prophage genome replication but does not explicitly involve virion production except after subsequent prophage induction….

bacteriophage vs prophage: What is a difference?

November 22, 2022

The primary distinction between prophage and bacteriophage is that prophage is a viral genome that has been integrated into a bacterial genome, whereas bacteriophage…

why a bacteriophage cannot infect a human

November 18, 2022

Can a bacteriophage infect a human cell? It’s an intriguing question that has scientists scratching their heads over the possibility of these “minute guys”…

Isolation of Pseudomonas bacteriophages from fish gastro intestinal tract

October 3, 2022

Fish plays a vital role in the human diet, and consumption per capita is increasing; however, the expansion of industry and agriculture causes contamination…

Bacteriophages: Nature’s Solution to Drug-Resistant Bacteria

October 3, 2022

Bacteria are microorganisms that are present everywhere on Earth. They are essential for the proper functioning of many ecosystems and are used in a…

Antibiotic drugs and Bacteriophages: Are they synergistic or antagonistic?

October 2, 2022

Many scientists, particularly those working on antimicrobial resistance, want to create the most effective anti-superbug weapon (multidrug-resistant strains of bacteria). Meanwhile, the central question…

Isolation of edwardsiella-specific bacteriophages from fish

September 11, 2022

Aquaculture, the culture of all types of aquatic animals and plants in fresh, back rush, and marine water environments, is one of the fastest-growing…

Jumbo phage chimallin (ChmA) protein: The answer to CRISPR-Cas bacterial defense system?

August 19, 2022

Loughlin et, 2020 Jumbo phages are bacteriophages (phages) with genetic information (genomes) larger than 200 kilobases. These phages are known as “jumbo” because they…

Phagemids: Phage plasmid hybrid vector

August 12, 2022

Due to its development as a hybrid of filamentous phage and plasmids, a phagemid is a cloning vector that can grow as a plasmid…

Top 4 most used Phage Display Systems (The Phage blog)

July 4, 2022

The most often utilized bacteriophages in phage display are filamentous bacteriophages from E. coli (f1, fd, and M13), while T4, T7, and phage have…