Bacterial viruses as human vaccines?

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Bacteriophages (or phages) are viruses of bacteria, consisting of nucleic acid packaged within a protein coat. In eukaryotic hosts, phages are unable to replicate and in the absence of a suitable prokaryotic host, behave as inert particulate antigens. In recent years, work has shown that whole phage particles can be used to deliver vaccines in the form of immunogenic peptides attached to modified phage coat...

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