defective bacteriophage

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A temperate bacteriophage mutant that cannot fully infect but that can replicate in the bacterial genome as a defective probacteriophage.

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However, just because a vaccine is replication-defective does not mean that you won't have an adverse event.
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Flaubert, for instance, hated the works of Dickens: “What defective composition!”
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Anyone who takes pot shots at a lovely wading bird is a hopeless defective, in my view, an evolutionary mistake.
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Any infant deemed defective by the council was tossed off a cliff.
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Seven years ago, a Chevy Cobalt with a defective ignition switch killed two teenage girls.
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All things are double, one against another, and he hath made nothing defective.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
If this is not done, some person who afterward wished to purchase the land might object because the recorded title was defective.
Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman|Albert Sidney Bolles
Such a license though defective is valid until revoked by the proper authority.
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If he is injured while running a car from a defective brake of which he had knowledge, he cannot recover.
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Thus if a meeting of proprietors must be called by twelve of them, a call signed by eleven is defective.
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