Corynebacteriophage — A corynebacteriophage is a DNA containing bacteriophage specific for corynebacteria. It introduces toxigenicity into strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.[1] References ^ Julie K. Segman, ed (2006). Stedman s Medical Dictionary (28th ed.).… … Wikipedia
Phage — Short for bacteriophage, a virus that lives within a bacteria. Bacteriophages have been very important and heuristic in bacterial and molecular genetics. Phages were studied by (among others) Alfred Hershey, Max Delbruck and Salvador Luria who… … Medical dictionary
bacteriophage — A virus with specific affinity for bacteria. Bacteriophages have been found in association with essentially all groups of bacteria, including the Cyanobacteria; like other viruses they contain either (but never both) RNA or DNA and vary in… … Medical dictionary