bacteriophage giles bacteriophage giles giles is a bacteriophage that infects mycobacterium smegmatis bacteria. the genome of this phage is very different from that of other mycobacteriophages and is highly mosaic. more than half of its predicted genes are novel and are not seen in other species. mycobacterium virus giles virus classification (unranked): virus realm: duplodnaviria kingdom: heunggongvirae phylum: uroviricota class: caudoviricetes order: caudovirales family: siphoviridae genus: gilesvirus species: mycobacterium virus giles