Drug-resistant infections occur when pathogens change in ways that render antimicrobial drugs ineffective. As a result, the pathogens survive and continue to spread. When infections are treatable with ...
Innate immunity is the first defense system against invading pathogens. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are well-defined pattern recognition receptors responsible for pathogen recognition and induction of ...
Rice is an important staple food crop. The global production of rice paddy was 746.9 million tons and 496 million tons milled rice (http://www.fao.org/economic/est ...