Reduced Infection Vigor

Abedon, Stephen T.

doi:10.5281/zenodo.20173633

🔬 Reduced Infection Vigor

Lowering of burst size, lengthening of latent period, or slowing of phage adsorption such due to the action of bacterial resistance mechanisms.

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

About this entry: Reduced Infection Vigor 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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Reduced Infection Vigor: Lowering of burst size, lengthening of latent period, or slowing of phage adsorption such due to the action of bacterial resistance mechanisms.

Discussion

<p>This idea of reduced infection vigor to our knowledge was first discussed by Hyman and Abedon (2010) and specifically as a means of distinguishing, in ecologically relevant terms, the two EOP versus ECOI circumstances indicated two paragraphs above.

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References

Hyman and Abedon (2010)

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

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