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Medical Term

bacteriophage

also: Phage

a VIRUS that attacks BACTERIA . The phage replicates in the host, which is ultimately destroyed as new phages are released. Each phage is specific to a certain bacterium and uses are found in genetic engineering, in cloning and certain manufacturing processes

Source: mediLexicon corpus · slug bacteriophage