1.Current status of occupational hygiene habits and Helicobacter pylori infection of domestic service personnel in a Shanghai community
Yuan FANG ; Guoxing DING ; Aibin GU ; Fang LAN
Chinese Journal of General Practitioners 2013;12(4):285-287
To explore the current status of occupational hygiene habits and Helicobacter pylori(Hp) infection of domestic service personnel in a Shanghai community and propose the community control measures.A total of 76 domestic service personnel and employers were selected into the investigation and control groups.And they answered questionnaire and received 14C-urea breath test.The career duration of 65% domestic service personnel were over 3 years.Home-based services accounted for 45%.The number of 49% part-time service accounted for two or more.And 84% of them dined together with service families.The difference of occupational hygiene habits and awareness of Hp infection had no statistical significance (P >0.05).The rate of Hp infection of domestic service personnel was 50% vs.38% for control group (x2 =2.162,P =1.141).Their consistent rate was 62% (Kappa =0.237).A high risk of Hp infection spread within or between the families is correlated with the professional behaviors of domestic service personnel.Eradication therapy for an existing patient should be started as early as possible and occupational practices standardized.
2. A multicenter, retrospective study of pathogenic bacteria distribution and drug resistance in febrile neutropenic patients with hematological diseases in Shanghai
Jun ZHU ; Jiong HU ; Yuanfei MAO ; Fangyuan CHEN ; Jianyi ZHU ; Jumei SHI ; Dandan YU ; Siguo HAO ; Rong TAO ; Peng LIU ; Shiyang GU ; Jian HOU ; Haiyan HE ; Aibin LIANG ; Yi DING ; Ligen LIU ; Yinghua XIE ; Qi ZHU ; Yehua YU ; Yonghua YAO ; Wei CHEN ; Huili XU ; Xiuhua HAN ; Chun WANG
Chinese Journal of Hematology 2017;38(11):945-950
Objective:
To investigate the pathogen spectrum distribution and drug resistance of febrile neutropenic patients with hematological diseases in Shanghai.
Methods:
A retrospective study was conducted on the clinical isolates from the febrile neutropenic patients hospitalized in the departments of hematology in 12 general hospitals in Shanghai from January 2012 to December 2014. The drug susceptibility test was carried out by Kirby-Bauer method. WHONET 5.6 software was used to analyze pathogenic bacteria and drug susceptibility data.
Results:
A total of 1 260 clinical isolates were collected from the febrile neutropenic patients. Gram-positive bacteria accounted for 33.3% and Gram-negative bacteria accounted for 66.7%.
3.Consistency of peripheral whole blood and venous serum procalcitonin in children: a multicenter parallel controlled study
Quan LU ; Hong ZHANG ; Xiaoyan DONG ; Hanmin LIU ; Yongmei JIANG ; Yingxue ZOU ; Yongming SHEN ; Deyu ZHAO ; Hongbing CHEN ; Tao AI ; Chenggui LIU ; Zhaobo SHEN ; Junmei YANG ; Yuejie ZHENG ; Yunsheng CHEN ; Weigang CHEN ; Yefei ZHU ; Chonglin ZHANG ; Lijun TIAN ; Guorong WU ; Ling LI ; Aibin ZHENG ; Meng GU ; Yongyue WEI ; Liangmin WEI
Chinese Journal of Pediatrics 2021;59(6):471-477
Objective:To explore the consistency of peripheral whole blood and venous serum procalcitonin (PCT) levels, and the value of peripheral whole blood PCT in evaluating pediatric bacterial infection.Methods:This multicenter cross-sectional parallel control study was conducted in 11 children′s hospital. All the 1 898 patients older than 28 days admitted to these hospitals from March 2018 to February 2019 had their peripheral whole blood and venous serum PCT detected simultaneously with unified equipment, reagent and method. According to the venous serum PCT level, the patients were stratified to subgroups. Analysis of variance and chi-square test were used to compare the demographic characteristics among groups. And the correlation between the peripheral blood and venous serum PCT level was investigated by quantitative Pearson correlation analysis.The PCT resultes were also converted into ranked data to further test the consistency between the two sampling methods by Spearman′s rank correlation test. Furthermore, the ranked data were converted into binary data to evaluate the consistency and investigate the best cut-off of peripheral blood PCT level in predicting bacterial infection.Results:A total of 1 898 valid samples were included (1 098 males, 800 females),age 27.4(12.2,56.7) months. There was a good correlation between PCT values of peripheral whole blood and venous serum ( r=0.97 , P<0.01). The linear regression equation was PCT?venous serum=0.135+0.929×PCT peripheral whole blood. However, when stratified to 5 levels, PCT results showed diverse and unsatisfied consistency between the two sampling methods ( r=0.51-0.92, all P<0.01). But after PCT was converted to ordinal categorical variables, the stratified analysis showed that the coincidence rate of the measured values by the two sampling methods in each boundary area was 84.9%-97.1%. The dichotomous variables also showed a good consistency (coincidence rate 96.8%-99.3%, Youden index 0.82-0.89). According to the severity of disease, the serum PCT value was classified into 4 intervals(<0.5、0.5-<2.0、2.0-<10.0、≥10.0 μg/L), and the peripheral blood PCT value also showed a good predictive value (AUC value was 0.991 2-0.997 9). The optimal cut points of peripheral whole blood PCT value 0.5、1.0、2.0、10.0 μg/L corresponding to venous serum PCT values were 0.395, 0.595, 1.175 and 3.545 μg/L, respectively. Conclusions:There is a good correlation between peripheral whole blood PCT value and the venous serum PCT value, which means that the peripheral whole blood PCT could facilitate the identification of infection and clinical severity. Besides, the sampling of peripheral whole blood is simple and easy to repeat.