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EPA has made preliminary estimates of the retrofits of each technology that would result from the Clear Skies Act.
Furthermore, in preliminary studies, PCR was more sensitive for detecting filarial parasites in mosquitoes than conventional dissection and microscopy [ 3 ] . The ability to adapt PCR techniques to detect microfilariae in pools of mosquitoes suggests that current PCR methods should be adequate for testing large numbers of mosquitoes in the context of filariasis elimination programs.
Other times, you learn during the preliminary assessment that source documents are not readily available.
These preliminary findings are interesting but the physiological significance, if any, remains unclear at this point.
As a preliminary step to testing this hypothesis I have searched the E. coli O157:H7 strain EDL933 [ 8 ] genome for open reading frames (ORFs) meeting the following criteria: