Objective To investigate the infection status in patients with vitiligo.Methods A total of 434 patients with vitiligo were collected eligible data by a uniform questionnaire.Anti-HEV IgG and anti-HEV IgM were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA).The correlation between the positive rate of anti-HEV IgG and sex,age,duration and immunology in-dex were analyzed.Results Out of the 434 patients,26.26％ of the total subjects were anti-HEV IgG positive.The positivity of anti-HEV IgG in adults and the progress of vitiligo patients was higher than that of teenagers and stabilization of vitiligo patients,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).Compared to the normal cases of IgA,IgG,C4,the positivity of anti-HEV IgG was significantly higher in the abnormal cases,the difference was statistically significant(P<0.05).Those 10 cases who were anti-HEV IgM positive,were anti-HEV IgG positive also.Conclusion The infection status in patients with vitiligo is serious and effective prevention strategies are required in future for reducing HEV transmission in these patients in order to reduce the incidence.

Objective:To understand the basic characteristics of COVID-19 cases and the virus carrying status of different samples in Ma′anshan.Methods:Descriptive epidemiological method was used to describe the distribution of 2019-nCoV infections in Ma′anshan. Real-time fluorescence RT-PCR was used to detect 2019-nCoV nucleic acid in sputum and/or throat swabs. Data was analyzed by EXCEL and SPSS 20.0. P<0.05 was considered to be statistically significant by using χ2 test. Results:Until 14 March 2020, 38 confirmed cases and no death had been reported in Ma′anshan, there were also 11 asymptomatic infections. 2019-nCoV infection was first detected on January 23, and the last was on February 20. No new infections have been found for 23 consecutive days until March 14; 77.55%(38/49)of the infections were in He county. Among the 1 447 subjects, the positive rate was 4.50% (27/600) in females and 2.60% (22/847) in males (χ 2=3.886, P=0.049). The minimum age of the infections was 4 years and the maximum was 85. There was no significant difference between age groups ( χ2=10.675, P=0.058). Among the 49 infections, 20 of them (40.82%) were from Wuhan, 24 (48.98%) were locally infected, and 5 (10.20%) were imported from other places. For the first positive infections, the positive rate of sputum (100%, 36/36) was higher than the throat swab (77.78%, 28/36), and the difference was statistically significant (χ 2=6.125, P<0.05). Conclusions:In Ma′anshan, 2019-nCoV infections were concentrated in He county, sputum was beneficial to the detection of 2019-nCoV.