phage
Noun
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is a type of: virus - (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of proteinsubtypes:
- coliphage - a bacteriophage that infects the bacterium Escherichia coli
- typhoid bacteriophage - a bacteriophage specific for the bacterium Salmonella typhi
same as: bacteriophage
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