Virus
Bacteriophages
Bac·te·ri·o·phag·es
Subclass of:
Virus
Definitions related to bacteriophages:
  • A non-taxonomic grouping of viruses that infect and lyse certain bacteria and archaea.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • Viruses whose hosts are bacterial cells.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • (bacterial virus) Capable of producing transmissible lysis of bacteria; virus particle attaches to bacterial cell wall and viral nucleoprotein enters the cell, resulting in viral synthesis and liberation on bacterial cell lysis.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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