FITNESS COSTS OF INDIVIDUAL AND COMBINED PYRETHROID RESISTANCE MECHANISMS, KDR AND CYP-MEDIATED DETOXIFICATION, IN AEDES AEGYPTI.

Fitness costs of individual and combined pyrethroid resistance mechanisms, kdr and CYP-mediated detoxification, in Aedes aegypti.

BackgroundAedes aegypti is an important vector of many human diseases and a serious threat Toy Ponies to human health due to its wide geographic distribution and preference for human hosts.A.aegypti also has evolved widespread resistance to pyrethroids due to the extensive use of this insecticide class over the past decades.Mutations that cause ins

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Global Network Analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Identifies Coordination between Pathways, Processes, and Regulators Expressed during Human Infection

ABSTRACT Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a Gram-negative diplococcus that is responsible for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea, a high-morbidity disease in the United States and worldwide.Over the past several years, N.gonorrhoeae strains resistant to antibiotics used to treat this infection have begun to emerge across the globe.Thus, new treat

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Revisiting Growth of Brazilian Economy (1980-2012)

The objective of this article is to analyze the causes of growth deceleration in the Brazilian Bariatric Beds economy initiated in the mid-1980s from a Keynesian-Structuralist perspective, according to which long-term growth is associated with structural change and capital accumulation.The article will analyze the period from 1980 to 2012 and will

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