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Importance of prophages to evolution and virulence of bacterial pathogens
Bacteriophages, or simply phages, are viruses infecting bacteria. With an estimated 10(31) particles in the biosphere, phages outnumber bacteria by a factor of at least 10 and not surprisingly, they influence the evolution of most bacterial species, sometimes in unexpected ways. “Temperate” phages h...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Landes Bioscience
2013
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3714127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23611873 http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/viru.24498 |