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11 years ago
the bacetriophage is a virus that infects bacteria now i got to right how it acts in living systems which is the human body how does it act in the human body
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11 years ago
Well for one a phage can take a bacteria that is not virulent, meaning it will not be disease causing, and transfer the genetics from other bacteria and cause it to now be virulent. This is actually common in the bacteria world.
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11 years ago
Bacteriophage don't actually work in the human body.  A bacteria is a living system, and this happens to be the organism that bacteriophage can infect.  They can either be lytic, meaning they'll replicate and destroy the bacterial cell; or enter into lysogeny, in which they will integrate into the bacterial genome and remain there, without killing the bacteria.
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