🔬 Bred Phage

Discussion

<p>Breeding of phages is essentially equivalent to experimental class="bap-term">adaptation of phages to particular medical+condition" class="bap-term">conditions or hosts. This is a process that phagologists have been subjecting phages to almost since the discovery of phages, whether as a means of increasing phage virulence or related efforts to modify phage host range.

Phage breeding can involve wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_passage" class="bap-term" target=_blank>serial passage of phages. Another example of this process is the selection for phages that resist elimination from blood as mediated by the mouse reticuloendothelial system (a.k.a., mononuclear phagocytic system).

For further consideration of phage breeding, especially from a more microbial population biology/evolutionary perspective, see Bull (2008).

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