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Companies may make sub-optimal choices, from an occupational health and safety or environmental standpoint, with inadequate information about alternatives.
Primary care physicians, by virtue of their position and function in healthcare, are key to the delivery of preventive care [ 1 ] . However, routine integration of primary prevention into practice has been sub-optimal, resulting in lost opportunities to decrease morbidity and mortality [ 2 ] . For example, though the Preventive Services Task Force [ 3 4 ] recommends that preventive services be a part of every medical visit, studies report a compliance rate of only 20% to 60% [ 5 6 7 ] .
Moreover, the embryos, themselves, might have been unhealthy; they were sometimes raised under sub-optimal conditions.
[ 9 ] demonstrated sequential HSV inoculation from mouse to mouse receiving sub-optimal ACV therapy led to the selection and amplification of resistant virus in vivo.
The remaining 38 pXO2 ORFs were not included in the present survey due to sub-optimal A/T richness, amplicon size, and thermodynamic characteristics of the candidate primer sets.