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Are there virulent phages hiding in your bacterial culture? Here we find hundreds of virulent phage genomes in bacterial genome assemblies. Bioinformatic and experimental evidence indicate these are not contaminations, but represent persistent infections.
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Despite the immense diversity of tailed bacteriophages, they are traditionally classified as either virulent or temperate, with only the latter thought capable of long-term persistence in bacterial ce...
