๐Ÿ”ฌ Bacteriophage-Insensitive Mutants (BIMs)

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by Stephen T. Abedon Ph.D. (abedon.1@osu.edu)

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About this entry: Bacteriophage-Insensitive Mutants (BIMs) is one of a growing set of phage biology and phage therapy terms defined here. For more phage terms, see Abedon, S.T. (2025). Phage Therapy Annotated Glossary. Preprints.org. 10.20944/preprints202508.0347.v1

phage.org/terms/bacteriophage_insensitive_mutants.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Bacteriophage-Insensitive Mutants (BIMs): Phage-resistant bacterial wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant" class="bap-term" target=_blank>mutants.

Discussion

<p>BIMs are typically achieved through mutations affecting bacterial-surface molecules (adsorption resistance), thereby interfering especially with phage attachment, and are useful particularly to fermentation-based industries. Phage-susceptible bacteria can also be converted to BIMs, however, by either genetic engineering or naturally occurred horizontal gene transfer.

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Abedon, S.T. (2026). Phage Terms. https://terms.phage.org  ·  10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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