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- | Some bacteriophages are parasites of bacteria, and as such, must prudently exploit their resources (in this case bacteria) to avoid killing bacterium before reproduce enough copies of itself. It has been suggested that parasites have evolved to tune their degree of virulence (amount of damage the parasite causes to the host) to achieve a balance between rapid reproduction and a prudent use of resources[1]. It is this fine balance which we intend to break increasing the virulence of phage in such a way that kills the bacterium so fast that the phage is unable to assemble their own copies | + | Some bacteriophages are parasites of bacteria, and as such, must prudently exploit their resources (in this case bacteria) to avoid killing bacterium before reproduce enough copies of itself. It has been suggested that parasites have evolved to tune their degree of virulence (amount of damage the parasite causes to the host) to achieve a balance between rapid reproduction and a prudent use of resources [1]. It is this fine balance which we intend to break increasing the virulence of phage in such a way that kills the bacterium so fast that the phage is unable to assemble their own copies |
As a first approach to solve our problem, the infection process was mathematically modeled with a system of differential equations. | As a first approach to solve our problem, the infection process was mathematically modeled with a system of differential equations. |
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