๐Ÿ”ฌ Phages

Plural shorthand for viruses that infect members of domain Bacteria

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

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About this entry: Phages 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/phages.html  ·  Abedon’s Books  ·  DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20173633

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Phages: Plural shorthand for viruses that infect members of domain Bacteria

Discussion

<p>For a list of book-length references to phages and their biology, both applied and basic, see "wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_monographs" class="bap-term" target=_blank>Phage monographs." Shorter, chapter-length discussions of phage biology are found in Hyman and Abedon (2009), Abedon (2008), Calendar and Inman (2005), and Guttman et al. (2005).

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References

  • Hyman and Abedon (2009).
  • Abedon (2008).
  • Calendar and Inman (2005).

How to cite this page

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

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