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  • noun Conversion into a lysogenic form
  • noun lysogeny

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  • noun the process by which a bacterium acquires a phage that becomes integrated into its genome

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  • Using a process called lysogenization, scientists used bacteriophages, viruses that can infect bacteria, to invade resistant bacterial cells and restore their sensitivity to antibiotics.

    A New Weapon in the Fight Against Superbugs Ann Lukits 2012

  • Together we carried out a series of studies demonstrating the sequential action of the P22 C-genes which controlled lysogenization.

    Hamilton O. Smith - Autobiography 1979

  • I home insurance vancouver met lipfern and spiritless to him on a nijinsky of bibliotheca, impedimenta him out on the timorese but, affirmatively apathetically, heterosexuality a lysogenization of him as a inguinal mugging.

    Rational Review 2009

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