🔬 Destructive Infection

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<p>Phage-destructive infections include those mediated by restriction endonucleases, resulting in a "restricted" infection this is phage but not bacterial destructive. Abortive infections tend to be phage as well as bacterial destructive, though only so long as the mechanism gives rise to substantial reductions in efficiency of center of infection (Efficiency of center of infection">ECOI). CRISPR-associated mechanisms can give rise to either result, that is, bacterial survival or, instead, bacterial loss.

Strictly phage-mediated mechanisms that give rise to destructive infections include those that result in superinfection exclusion or, instead, superinfection immunity. See also the concept simply of superinfection.

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