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DiscordAccordion t1_iuzhf11 wrote

Reply to comment by MarineLife42 in Even if a virus doesn’t provoke a (noticeable) immune response in asymptomatic people, why don’t the deaths/lysis of the hijacked cells cause severe health effects in and of themselves? by Chewie83

Quick correction: bacteriophages do not all go lytic. A great number are temperate phage, which integrate into the genome of the host cell and are replicated as the host divides. When the host is stressed or damaged, the phage will excise itself and go lytic.

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