๐Ÿ”ฌ Liberation

Translocation of intracellular phage progeny to the extracellular state as occurs in the course class="bap-term">phage-induced bacterial lysis.

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

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About this entry: Liberation 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

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Liberation: Translocation of intracellular phage progeny to the extracellular state as occurs in the course class="bap-term">phage-induced bacterial lysis.

Discussion

<p>This is the definition from Adams (1959), p. 439, for "Burst": "Yield of phage liberated by spontaneous lysis of an infected bacterium. This may be measured directly for isolated bacteria in single burst experiments, or as an average burst size in one-step growth wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiment" target="_blank" class="bap-term">experiments. Also the act of liberation." (emphasis mine)

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References

  • Adams (1959). Bacteriophages. Interscience Publishers, New York.

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

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