🔬 Lytic Phage

Discussion

<p>The word "lytic" should not be used to describe phages as not temperate since most temperate phages technically are also lytic phage. Far better to describe these not-temperate phages instead as either obligately lytic or professionally lytic – or indeed as Virulent phage">virulent – rather than simply as lytic. In addition, not all phages that are not temperate are also lytic, i.e., chronically infecting phages, and indeed a handful of phages are known that are both chronically infecting and temperate such as phage CTXΦ.

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