Viruses cooperate to defeat bacteria

It emerges that viruses called phages, which infect bacteria, can suppress the bacterial immune system during an initial wave of unsuccessful infection, enabling subsequent viral infection to succeed. It emerges that viruses called phages, which infect bacteria, can suppress the bacterial immune sys...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 559; no. 7715; pp. 482 - 484
Main Authors Bernheim, Aude, Sorek, Rotem
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.07.2018
Nature Publishing Group
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Bacteria
Bacterial infections
Bacteriophages
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
Cooperation
CRISPR
CRISPR-Associated Proteins
CRISPR-Cas Systems
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
Humanities and Social Sciences
Immune system
Infection
Infections
Microbial drug resistance
Microbiology
multidisciplinary
news-and-views
Population
Proteins
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Viral infections
Virus diseases
Viruses
United States
Israel
Microbiology
Virology
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Summary:It emerges that viruses called phages, which infect bacteria, can suppress the bacterial immune system during an initial wave of unsuccessful infection, enabling subsequent viral infection to succeed. It emerges that viruses called phages, which infect bacteria, can suppress the bacterial immune system during an initial wave of unsuccessful infection, enabling subsequent viral infection to succeed.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/d41586-018-05762-1