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Bacteriophages are viruses that attack and destroy?
Bacteria by injecting their genetic material into the bacterial cells, which causes the cells to produce more viruses until they burst, releasing new viruses to infect other bacteria. Bacteriophages are being researched as a potential alternative to antibiotics for treating bacterial infections.
What types of organisms does bacteriophage attack?
Bacteriophages are viruses that infect and replicate within bacteria. They do not infect human cells or other eukaryotic organisms. Bacteriophages are specific to infecting particular bacterial species or strains.
How does swine flu get destroyed without antibiotics?
You cannot destroy a virus with antibiotics, because antibiotics kill bacteria not viruses. Tamiflu and other meds similar attack the virus, but it is not always successful, as viruses are quick to mutate and become immune to antivirals out there.
Does Bacteria have viruses?
Yes, bacteria can be infected by viruses called bacteriophages. Bacteriophages are specific to infecting bacteria and can inject their genetic material into a bacterial cell, causing it to replicate and produce more viruses. This process eventually leads to the lysis, or bursting, of the bacterial cell, releasing more viruses to infect other bacteria.
What is a bacteria that infects bacteria called?
Bacteria do not infect other bacteria, but they can attack them.
What are the other organisms besides fungi and bacteria?
Viruses
What is phagocytize bacteria?
Phagocytosis is a process in which specialized cells like macrophages engulf and digest bacteria or other foreign particles to eliminate them from the body. The engulfed bacteria are enclosed within a membrane-bound vesicle called a phagosome, which fuses with lysosomes containing digestive enzymes to break down the bacteria. This process helps to protect the body from infections.
Can a virus infect a bacteria?
Yes, they are known as bacteriophages, or simply phages.For example, Enterobacteria phage T4 is a phage which infects the E-Coli bacterium.Your question should be "Can a virus infect a bacterium?" Yes they can. Viruses are 10 to 100 times smaller than bacteria or in other words, they are submicroscopic parasites. They are the smallest living things known to man.
Do pathogens directly attack human tissue?
Not always. Pathogens such as viruses must attack human cells to replicate. Other pathogens like bacteria can actually attack and distroy tissue or just cling onto the surface. (For example: Clostridium Difficile is a bacteria that can grow out of control in a person's colon; they cling to the walls and prevent the absorption of fluids, this results in diarrhea.) Some bacteria produce toxins that attack tissues.Yes some pathogens attack human tissue.Yes
What part of the host do bacteria and viruses eat?
viruses dont eat anything because they are not living, bacteria eat anything they can find, they break down what they can find and absorb it, the feed on glucose just like every other heterotrophic organism
How can viruses be helpful?
Viruses that are harmless to humans can be used to infect bacteria or other pests eg rabbits
Where does bacteria pick up other pieces of DNA after being infected by viruses?
Bacteria of the genus Lactobacilli.
