The gut virome and the relevance of temperate phages in human health

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Alterations in the gut virome impact human health. Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, dominate the gut virome and are mainly composed by virulent and temperate phages. While virulent phages exclusively replicate within and lyse their bacterial host's cell, temperate phages switch from an integrated state residing within their bacterial host's chromosome to an induced free virion state via an induction...

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