Another possibility is to enlist a bacteriophage, a kind of virus, to hunt down and kill harmful bacteria for us.
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Bacteriophage
//bækˈtɪəɹ.ɪəʊˌfeɪd͡ʒ//
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31 translations across 26 languages.
Basque
1 entries- bakteriofago noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Catalan
1 entries- bacteriòfag noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 噬菌體 /噬菌体 noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Czech
1 entries- bakteriofág noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Danish
1 entries- bakteriofag noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Finnish
2 entries- bakteriofagi noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
- faagi noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
French
1 entries- bactériophage noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
German
1 entries- Bakteriophage noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Greek
2 entries- βακτηριοφάγος noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
- φάγος noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Hungarian
1 entries- bakteriofág noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Icelandic
4 entries- bakteríuveira noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
- faga noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
- gerilveira noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
- gerilæta noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Indonesian
1 entries- bakteriofag noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Irish
1 entries- baictéarafagach noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Japanese
1 entries- バクテリオファージ noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Kazakh
1 entries- бактериофаг noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Korean
1 entries- 박테리오파지 noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Latin
1 entries- bacteriophagum noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Latvian
1 entries- bakteriofāgs noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Malay
1 entries- bakteriofaj noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bakteriofag noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bakteriofag noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Polish
1 entries- bakteriofag noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Portuguese
1 entries- bacteriófago noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Spanish
1 entries- bacteriófago noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Turkish
1 entries- bakteriyofaj noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
Vietnamese
1 entries- thực khuẩn thể noun (a virus that infects bacteria)
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