INTRODUCTION A semi-automated magnetic capture probe-based DNA extraction and real-time PCR method (MC-PCR), allowing for a more efficient large-scale surveillance of Echinococcus multilocularis occurrence, has been developed. The test sensitivity has previously been evaluated using the sedimentation and counting technique (SCT) as a gold standard. However, as the sensitivity of the SCT is not ...

Abstract Objectives SET Domain Containing Protein 8 (SET8), a member of the domain containing methyltransferase family involved in several biological processes and SET8 expression levels, reportedly affects outcomes patients with breast cancer, renal prostate carcinoma, oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma. However, there have been no relevant studies on biofunction use prediction laryngeal carc...

background: rapid diagnosis and differentiation of brucella is of high importance due to the side effects of antibiotics for the treatment of brucellosis. this study aimed to identify and compare pcr-elisa as a more accurate diagnositc test with other common molecular and serological tests. methods: in this experimental and sectional study, during march 2014 to sep 2015, 52 blood samples of sus...

in this study, we investigate the further properties of quasi irresolute topological groupsde ned in [20]. we show that if a group homomorphism f between quasi irresolute topologicalgroups is irresolute at eg, then f is irresolute on g. later we prove that in a semi-connectedquasi irresolute topological group (g; ; ), if v is any symmetric semi-open neighborhood ofeg, then g is generated by v...

BACKGROUND Insertion mutant isolation and characterization are extremely valuable for linking genes to physiological function. Once an insertion mutant phenotype is identified, the challenge is to isolate the responsible gene. Multiple strategies have been employed to isolate unknown genomic DNA that flanks mutagenic insertions, however, all these methods suffer from limitations due to ineffici...

Here, we describe a 3-month-old XX male French Bulldog. The diagnosis was based on the clinical signs, gonadal histology and cytogenetic analysis. Additionally, the dog was confirmed to be Sry negative by semi-quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (sqRT-PCR). Canine Sry-negative XX sex reversal is a disorder of gonadal development where individuals who have a female karyo...

In permissive cells, human cytomegalovirus encodes the protein US28, a functional CC chemokine receptor. US28 polyadenylated mRNA could be detected by RT-PCR as early as 2 h post-infection. US28 mRNA appeared after major IE1 transcripts (UL123), but before transcripts of the early genes pp65 (UL83) and gB (UL55), and the late gene pp150 (UL32). This temporal appearance indicates that US28 is tr...