temperate phage

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temperate phage

[tem′pərit]

Etymology: L, temperare, to moderate; Gk, phagein, to eat

a bacteriophage whose genome is incorporated into the host bacterium. It persists through many cell divisions of the bacterium without destroying the host, in contrast to a virulent phage, which lyses and kills its host.

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