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Bacteriophages reproduce by commandeering a bacterium and ultimately killing it. But sometimes, through lysogeny, the phage doesn't immediately take over its host.

This series of articles explores how viruses that exclusively infect bacterial cells recognize the hosts they parasitize and reproduce once the bacterium is infected.

Bacteriophages are a special type of virus that exclusively infects bacterial cells. Here's how they recognize, take over and ultimately kill their host bacteria.

Bacteriophages are a particular type of virus that infects only bacterial cells. Ultimately the virus kills its host, but sometimes it first becomes a hidden prophage.

There is renewed scientific interest in bacteriophages, an old therapeutic application of using "bacteria-eating" viruses called phages to fight infectious diseases.

When antibiotic prescriptions are not followed, drug resistant bacteria evolve and antibiotics become less effective.

When antibiotic prescriptions are not followed, drug resistant bacteria evolve and antibiotics become less effective. Proper use of antibiotics is essential.

Newly discovered cell-sized viruses have an infecting satellite virus, with implications for viruses as life forms, cell origins, the cause of disease and its treatment.

Viruses are not living cells, but efficient parasites that commandeer living cells and turn them into virus factories. Learn how these nonliving particles act so smart.

Although bacterial reproduction results in the generation of clones, prokaryotes can undergo genetic recombination through transformation, transduction, and conjugation.

To study the distribution and behavior of proteins in extracts prepared from cells or tissues, methods based on detection using specific antibodies are widely used.