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A Cryptosporidium parvum sporozoite and oocyst lambda gt11 cDNA library was screened with a hyperimmune rabbit serum that was developed against insoluble fragments of ultrasonicated oocysts. A clone named Cp22.4.1 encoding a protein of 231 amino acids with 4 zinc-finger domains characterized by a Cys-X2-Cys-X4-His-X4-Cys motif was isolated and characterized. There was a complete match between t...

To characterize genetic variation of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) transmitted in the Beijing area during the epidemic outbreak of 2003, we sequenced 29 full-length S genes of SARS-CoV from 20 hospitalized SARS patients on our unit, the Beijing 302 Hospital. Viral RNA templates for the S-gene amplification were directly extracted from raw clinical samples, ...

PCR-based approach was used as a phylogenetic profiling tool to probe genomic DNA samples from representatives of evolutionary distant moss taxa, namely, classes Bryopsida, Tetraphidopsida, Polytrichopsida, Andreaeopsida, and Sphagnopsida. We found relatives of all Physcomitrella patens miR390 and TAS3-like loci in these plant taxa excluding Sphagnopsida. Importantly, cloning and sequencing of ...

We investigate the role of symmetric quantum cloning machines (QCMs) in quantifying mutual incompatibility observables. Specifically, we identify a cloning-based measure whereby set observables maybe quantified terms how well uniform ensemble their eigenstates can be cloned via QCM. show that this new $\mathcal{Q}_{c}$ is {\it faithful} since it vanishes only for commuting prove an upper bound ...

We consider the problem of determining achievable region parameters for universal $1 \to 2$ asymmetric quantum cloning. Measuring cloning performance with figure merit singlet fraction, we show that physical is a union ellipses in plane. Equivalently, characterize parameter state compatibility two possibly different isotropic states, considering, first time, negative fractions.