If the infecting phage is virulent, the infection follows a lytic cycle, or for temperate phages ... In comparison to broad-spectrum antibiotics, viruses used for personalized phage therapy infect ...

The observed rapid cleavage of ICP4 indicates that a T-cell response to virus-infected cells can quickly remove a protein that is important for the initiation of the lytic replication cycle.

Viruses of bacteria ... this lysis can occur either soon after the initiation of infection (lytic cycle) or instead following lengthy periods of delay (lysogenic cycle). [1] In addition to ...