A corynebacteriophage is a DNA containing bacteriophage specific for corynebacteria. It introduces toxigenicity into strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae.[1]
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corynebacteriophage — Any one of the bacteriophages specific for corynebacteria. β c. a DNA containing bacteriophage that induces toxigenicity in strains of Corynebacterium diphtheriae that are lysogenic for its prophage. SYN: β phage … Medical dictionary
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
