๐Ÿ”ฌ Immediately Productive

Description of a phage infection that is not reductive and particularly not class="bap-term">Lysogenic infection">lysogenic.

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

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About this entry: Immediately Productive 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/immediately_productive.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Immediately Productive: Description of a phage infection that is not reductive and particularly not class="bap-term">Lysogenic infection">lysogenic.

Discussion

<p>This term exists especially as a means of expressing that not just lytic but also chronically released class="bap-term">phages can be contrasted between Temperate phage">temperate versus non-temperate phages. In addition, for temperate phages their wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual" target="_blank" class="bap-term">individual infections can be contrasted between those that go on to form lysogens (reductive) versus those that bypass lysogeny to instead display productive infections, that is, immediately productive infections.

As variations on this theme, see also obligately productive cycle, obligately productive infection, obligately productive phage, obligately chronic infection, obligately chronic phage, obligately lytic infection, and obligately lytic phage.

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

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