In the present work, fractal geometry is applied to histological sections of the hepatopancreas tissue of white shrimp (L. vannamei) experimentally infected with Hepatobacter penaei bacteria (NHPB), in order to perform an analysis of the morphology adopted by the different cellular components damaged by this intracellular-type pathogen bacteria. The fractal dimension of the digital images of the histological sections was obtained by using a code written in Matlab, which uses the box counting method to determine the differences between areas infected with NHPB and without infection. The fractal dimension of histological sections of the uninfected hepatopancreas was less than the fractal dimension of the hepatopancreas infected by NHPB, generating novel information about the fractal morphological characterization of this type of biological systems in relation to this pathology.

在目前的工作中，分形几何被应用于实验性感染了戊型肝炎的白虾（南美白对虾）的肝胰脏组织的组织切片细菌（NHPB），以便对这种细胞内型病原菌所破坏的不同细胞成分所采用的形态进行分析。组织切片数字图像的分形维数是使用Matlab编写的代码获得的，该代码使用盒计数法确定感染NHPB和未感染的区域之间的差异。未感染的肝胰腺组织切片的分形维数小于被NHPB感染的肝胰腺的分形维数，从而产生了与这种病理学有关的这类生物系统的分形形态特征的新信息。