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Viral entry resulting in bacterial death but not necessarily also in phage death.
| An Active Infection is one that causes especially therapeutically useful harm to a targeted bacterium. |
An active infection, from the perspective of phage therapy, is either a productive infection, by a phage of a bacterium, or at least a bacteriolytic or abortive infection.
Relevant to the concept of active infection are active treatment and active penetration.
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