Bacteriophages
A Bacteriophage is any one of a number of viruses which infect bacteria. Bacteriophages do this through injecting genetic material that they carry enclosed in an outer protein capsid. The genetic material can be dsRNA, ssRNA, dsDNA or ssDNA beside with either linear or circular arrangement.
Bacteriophages are between the mainly general and diverse entities in the biosphere.The term are usually used in its shortened form phage.Phages are broadly distributed in locations populated through bacterial hosts like as soil or the intestines of animals. One of the densest natural sources for other viruses and phages is sea water where up to 9×108 virions per milliliter have been found in microbial mats at the surface and up to 70 percent of marine bacteria may be infected through phages. They have been used for over 90 years as an alternative to antibiotics in the former Eastern Europe and Soviet Union as well as in France. They are look as a possible therapy against multi-drug-resistant strains of several bacteria.