🔬 Lysogen

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By contrast, certain phage-bacterial interactions can exist – described as pseudolysogenic or a phage carrier state – in which lysis generating characteristics in fact may be readily cured in the course of bacterial propagation in the presence of specific anti-phage serum.

This is the definition from Adams (1959), p. 440, for "Lysogenic bacterium": "A bacterium capable of multiplying indefinitely in the infected condition. In lysogenic cultures phage is produced only by exceptional cells that lyse."

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