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Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular pathogens that infect a variety of host organisms and exhibit individual tissue tropisms within a host species.
It is possible that the retroviruses that successfully infect us are those, like HIV, that have managed to evolve strategies to avoid the destructive capacities of APOBEC3G.
It does not rely on phage themselves, but on enzymes that phage produce to smash their way out of their host bacteria so they can infect new hosts.
When the time comes, I won't want to infect my Chinese-Scotch-Irish-Jewish children with bloodline fever.
They may even infect otherwise straightforward VERBATIM prose, as alert readers will have spotted.