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If the current practice continues, the observed treatment gaps are expected to persist or even widen.
This assessment rules out idealistic scenarios: that the public might accept the sacrifice and continue to support the war, or that Clinton might persist and try to win back public confidence rather than bail out.
While active turnover of new strains of nontypeable H. influenzae occurs, some strains have the ability to persist for many months.
So, if everyone's unhappy with the system, why does it persist?
The mechanism that enables M. paratuberculosis to persist within cattle for several years remains unclear as high moi are not likely observed at early stages of Johne's disease.