Bacteria Can Be Infected By Viruses - And Understanding That May Wipe Out The 'Superbug'
Friday, August 15, 2008 - 02:35
in Biology & Nature
All animals, plants and bacteria run the risk of being infected by specific viruses. For humans, such viruses include the flu virus, for the tobacco plant this is the tobacco mosaic virus and for the intestinal bacterium E. coli this is the enterobacteria phage lambda. Read More...
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