Abstract Background The Tephritidae family, commonly referred to as true fruit flies, comprises of a substantial group within order Diptera.Numerous species within this family are major agricultural pests, with a tendency to infest a wide array of fruits and vegetables in tropical and sub- tropical regions, leading to considerable damage and conseq
In this manuscript we investigate the use of the maximum entropy production (MEP) principle for modeling biogeochemical processes that are catalyzed by living systems.Because of novelties introduced by the MEP approach, Crop Jumper many questions need to be answered and techniques developed in the application of MEP to describe biological systems t
Introduction: Rickettsioses are zoonotic diseases Hobby Paint caused by pathogenic bacteria of the genus Rickettsia and transmitted to man by means of arthropod vectors such as ticks, fleas, mites and lice.Historically, Caldas Department has reported a significant number of cases of murine typhus to the Colombian national health surveillance system
ABSTRACT Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), the causative agent of tuberculosis, is one of the most successful human pathogens.One reason for its success is that Mtb can reside within host macrophages, a cell type that normally functions to phagocytose and destroy infectious bacteria.However, Mtb is able to evade macrophage defenses in order to surv