Affiliation:
1. Laboratory of Food and Environmental Microbiology, Earth and Life Institute, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Abstract
The phage life cycle ends with the host cell lysis, thereby releasing new virions into the environment for the next round of bacterial infection. Nowadays, there is renewed interest in phages as biocontrol agents, primarily due to their ability to cause bacterial death through lysis.
Funder
Communaute francaise de Belgique
Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Virology,Insect Science,Immunology,Microbiology