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Caveat: Bacteriophages have yet to be tested on hospital superbugs such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus MRSA.
A New Weapon in the Fight Against Superbugs Ann Lukits 2012
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Bacteriophages are much smaller than the bacteria they destroy - usually between 20 and 200 nm in size.
Cloverfield Haiku Contest Dennis 2007
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Bacteriophages: Set a microorganism to catch a microorganism
Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003
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Bacteriophages are being held out as an alternative to antibiotics (in the age of antibiotic-resistant superbugs that are only made stronger by the application of stronger antibiotics, an alternative is sorely needed), ironically, since they were set aside as ineffective when compared to the newly discovered penicillin in the forties.
Boing Boing: September 14, 2003 - September 20, 2003 Archives 2003
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Bacteriophages have these nasty buglike legs and bloated icosohedral bellies, and they squat on the bacterial membrane like pestilent, bloodhungry mosquitos and disgorge their lethal payload.
Rambles at starchamber.com » Blog Archive » Viral marketing 2004
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Bacteriophages are viruses that are pathogenic to bacteria, affecting above all the streptococcus of lactic cultures.
Chapter 5 1989
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Bacteriophages contain a genetic control circuit complete with emitter, receptor, and structural genes.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1965 - Presentation Speech 1972
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Bacteriophages have served and continue to serve as models for the more complicated and less approachable systems represented by animal and human cells.
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Bacteriophages are a group of viruses that infect bacteria rather than ordinary cells.
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Bacteriophages are quite common, so many of the students involved will make a new discovery like Emilia did, though the age of her sample set her find apart.
The Seattle Times 2011
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