Viruses of bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phages ... Depending on the life cycle of the phage, this lysis can occur either soon after the initiation of infection (lytic cycle) or instead ...

Thereafter, the phage utilizes the host's machinery to synthesize multiple copies of itself. If the infecting phage is virulent, the infection follows a lytic cycle, or for temperate phages, a ...

This image shows the replication cycle of HIV/SIV. The virus replicates in the body's own CD4+ T helper cells. In doing so, it introduces its own genetic information into the DNA of the host cell.