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Phages that are not temperate, not closely related to temperate phages, and which kill infected bacterial hosts in order to release their progeny virions.
| Professionally Lytic phages are well suited to phage therapy, both because they are unable to successfully infect without killing their bacterial host and because they are unlikely to carry bacterial virulence factor genes. |
Phages which are strictly lytic/obligately lytic are not necessarily also professionally lytic since it is possible for temperate phages to mutate to so-called virulent mutants and thereby genetically be all-but temperate phages.
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