Objective:To understand the distribution characteristics of human brucellosis in Anyang City, Henan Province, and to provide scientific basis for control of brucellosis.Methods:The epidemic data and population data of human brucellosis in 2019 in Anyang City were collected from the Chinese Disease Control and Prevention Information System, and the epidemiological and clinical data were collected by Anyang Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Descriptive epidemiological method was used to sort out and analyze the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of brucellosis.Results:In 2019, 128 cases of brucellosis were reported in Anyang City, with an incidence rate of 3.12/100 000 (128/4 096 193). Among them, 85 cases were male and 43 cases were female, the sex ratio of male to female was 1.98∶1.00; the youngest was 1 year old, and the oldest was 83 years old, there were 100 cases between 40 and 69 years old, accounting for 78.12% (100/128); the main occupation was farmer (119 cases), accounting for 92.97% (119/128); a total of 96 cases had contact history with sheep, accounting for 75.00% (96/128). The peak of incidence was from April to August (81 cases), accounting for 63.28% (81/128). Eight counties (cities and districts) in Anyang City were all affected, and the top three counties (districts) were Yindu District (15.39/100 000, 42/272 983), Longan District (5.16/100 000, 12/232 421) and Neihuang County (4.02/100 000, 27/672 396). The median time from onset to diagnosis was 32.18 d, ranging from 3 to 350 d, 72 cases were ≥ 31 d, accounting for 56.25% (72/128).Conclusions:In 2019, the main population of brucellosis in Anyang City is male middle-aged and elderly farmers, and the main infection route is contact transmission. It is suggested to strengthen the implementation of prevention and control measures of brucellosis.

Chorismic acid is a mid-metabolite that plays a central role in the metablism process distributing in the bacterium, epiphyte and plants. It is a common precursor substance of the all aromatic amino acids that can turn into phenylalanine and tyrosine catalyzed by bi-functional enzyme chorismate mutase (CM)-prephenate dehydratase (PDT) and chorismate mutase-prephenate dehydrogenase (PDH) respectively. CMp-PDT with its regulate domain Rp were called P-protein and CMt-PDH with its regulate domain Rt were called T-protein. P-protein and T-protein from E. coli. have a similar structure, both of which contained three domains: CMp, PDT, Rp in P-protein and CMt, PDH, Rt in T-protein. P-protein and T-protein are regulated by their effectors phenylalanine and tyrosine respectively through binding to their Rp and Rt domains. Rp and Rt domains were switched between P-protein and T-protein by cloning of chimeric proteins. The results showed that regulatory effects were switched along the switch of R domains and the switch of the regulatory domains lead to the switch of effectors. It means that the combination of the regulatory domain and the effector is specific and the regulating of the regulatory domain to the enzyme activity is non-specific. This property of R domains may make them possible molecular elements in the study of molecular machines.

Objective: To establish a method for the determination of eucalyptol, camphor and menthol in compound menthol camphor eucalyptus oil solution by GC.Methods: An HP-INNOWAX 19091N-216 capillary column(60 m× 0.32 mm , 0.50 μm)was used.The carrier gas was nitrogen with the flow rate of 30 ml·min-1 , the gas was hydrogen with the flow rate of 40 ml·min-1 and the oxidant gas was air with the flow rate of 400 ml· min-1.The detector was FID and the inlet temperature was 250℃.The temperature program was as follows: the initial column temperature was 50℃, and then risen to 160℃ with a rate of 10℃·min-1 and kept for 5 min, and finally risen to 220℃ with a rate of 20℃·min-1 and kept for 3 min.The split ratio was 15∶1 and the injection volume was 1 μl.Results: The linear range of eucalyptol, camphor and menthol was 0.031 9-2.550 0 mg·ml-1 (r=1.000 0), 0.041 3-3.305 0 mg·ml-1 (r=1.000 0) and 0.053 7-4.294 0 mg·ml-1 (r=1.000 0), respectively.The average recovery was 98.24% (RSD=0.3% , n =9), 98.97% (RSD=0.4% , n =9) and 98.98% (RSD=0.5% , n =9), respectively.Conclusion: The method is sensitive and accurate with good stability, which can be used to determine the contents of eucalyptol, camphor and menthol in compound menthol camphor eucalyptus oil solution.

In order to develop a combined live vaccine that will be used to prevent against porcine parvovirus (PPV) and Pseudorabies virus (PRV) infection, the VP2 gene of PPV was inserted into the transfer vector plasmid pG to produce the recombinant plasmid pGVP2. The plasmid pGVP2 and the genome of PRV HB98 attenuated vaccine were transfected by using lipofectamine into swine testis cells for the homologous recombination. The recombinant virus rPRV-VP2 was purified by selection of green fluorescence plaques for five cycles. 6-week-old female Kunming mice were immunized intramuscularly with attenuated PRV parent HB98 strain, commercial inactivated vaccine against PPV, recombinant virus, DMEM culture solution. The injections were repeated with an equivalent dose after 2 weeks in all of the groups, and then challenged with the virulent PRV NY strain at 7 weeks after the first immunization. The recombinant virus rPRV-VP2 was successfully generated, and the recombinant virus could effectively elicite anti-PPV and PRV antibody and significant cellular immune response as indicated by anti-PPV ELISA and HI, PRV-neutralizing assay and flow cytometry. The challenge assay indicated that recombinant virus could protect the mice against the virulent PRV challenge. These results demonstrated that the recombinant virus can be a candidate recombinant vaccine strain for the prevention of PRV and PPV.
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BACKGROUND:With the development and improvement of liver transplantation technology, patients waiting for or undergoing liver transplantation have continued to increase in number. Due to their fears and concerns about post-transplantation rehabilitation, patients are under physical and mental stress, most of whom are shown to have a variety of mental disorders that affect rehabilitation. At present, mental problems of liver transplant patients are more concentrated in post-transplantation research, while patients waiting for liver transplantation do not get enough mental assessment and intervention.
OBJECTIVE:To investigate the suitable mode of cognitive-behavioral therapy for liver transplant recipients waiting for donor liver and to evaluate the effect to improve patient’s physical and mental state.
METHODS:Twelve liver transplant patients who underwent pre-transplantation assessment were randomly divided into experimental group and control group, each group with six cases. The control group received conventional treatment. The experimental group received cognitive-behavioral therapy in addition to conventional treatment. Self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) and vital signs were measured in the two groups on admission, 1 week and 3 weeks after admission.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION:The SAS score of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group at 1 and 3 weeks after admission, and SAS score decreased as the intervention extended. The systolic blood pressure of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group at 3 weeks after admission, but there was no significant difference in diastolic blood pressure between two groups. The heart rate of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group at 1 and 3 weeks after admission. The respiratory rate of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group at 3 weeks after admission. Cognitive-behavioral therapy can reduce the level of anxiety and keep vital signs stable with good feasibility and effectiveness in patients waiting for liver transplantation.

ObjectiveTo investigate the relationship between intramural gallstones and intraluminal gallstones. MethodsIn this present study, the control study was applied to analysis on the gallstones from 116 cholecystolithiasis patients with intramural gallstones as well as intraluminal gallstones. All the patients were from the general surgery department and accepted gallbladder-preserving cholecystolithotomy during 2009.02-2009.08. Meanwhile, 171 patients with intraluminal gallstones were investigated the clinical traits; and gallstones from them were analyzed with FT-IR and microsopic examination. ResultsThe results showed the coincidence rate of stone type was 97.4％, and it was mainly pigment gallstones and mixed gallstones in 116 cases; the coincident detection rate of clonorchis sinensis eggs was 98.3 ％, and it was much higher in the pigment gallstones and mixed gallstones than that in the cholesterol gallstones. The ratio of pigment gallstones from the 116 patients group was higher than the 171 patients group, and the detection rate of C. sinensis eggs of the two groups had no statistical difference (P＞0.05). ConclusionsThe stone type of intramural gallstones was mainly pigment gallstones and mixed gallstones. Intramural gallstones and intraluminal gallstones were homologous.

To understand the genetic origin and variation of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) prevailing in Henan province,a total of 22 PEDV positive samples from suckling piglets with severe diarrhea were collected from 16 pig farms and amplified by RT-PCR.ORF3 genes were then cloned into pMD18-T vector and sequenced.The result of sequencing showed that the length of ORF3 genes all were 675 bp which encoded 224 amino acids.The strains in this study had eight amino acid substitutions when compared with CV777 strain.The nucleotide homologies of the 22 strains were 95.9％-100％ and amino acid homologies were 96.4％-100％.By comparing with those of European strain CV777 and vaccine strain truncated CV777,the nucleotide homologies were 97.1％-97.9％ and 94.8％-95.4％,respectively.Based on the phylogenetic relationship of ORF3 genes,the PEDV field strains and PEDV reference strains could be divided into two groups,and all the field strains identified in this study belong to group 2.It suggested that prevalent PEDV strains in this study seem to be closely related to Henan isolates in previous years,domestic strains,Janpanese strains,American strains as well as Korean strains but differ genetically from European strains or vaccine strains used in China.This experiment analyzed the ORF3 gene sequence features in prevailing of Henan region in recent years,which provides a new support of epidemiology study and protein function research of PEDV ORF3 gene.

Objectives:To analyze the clinical characteristics of patients undergoing extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) and identify the risk factors for death.Methods:The clinical data of 60 patients undergoing ECPR admitted to our hospital and Hangzhou First People's Hospital from September 2014 to September 2019 were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into the survival group and the death group. The clinical data of the two groups were compared to explore the risk factors related to death. COX regression analysis was used to identify the risk factors for death.Results:Sixty patients undergoing ECPR were included in our study, of them, 16 (26.7%) cases were out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and 44 (73.3%) cases were in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA). The mortality of OHCA patients was higher than that of IHCA patients (87.5% vs. 56.89%, P < 0.05), and the duration from CPR to ECMO installation in the death group was longer than that in the survival group [(105.4±105.1) min vs. (53.0±28.5) min, P < 0.05]. Compared with the survival group, patients in the death group had higher troponin and glutamic oxalacetic transaminase and lower PH and lactate ( P < 0.05). The median survival time of the 60 patients was 42 days. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, high SOFA score before ECMO, high-dose norepinephrine, pulmonary infection during ECMO support and long ECMO support time were independent predictors of patients’ death. Conclusions:Risk factors associated with patients’ death undergoing ECPR are out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, high SOFA score before ECMO, high-dose norepinephrine, long duration from CPR to ECMO installation, pulmonary infection during ECMO support and long ECMO support time.

Objective To study the relationship among bile components and different gallstone types through comparing and analyzing gallbladder bile contents in patients with different types of gallstones.Methods A retrospective study of 542 consecutive patients with gallstones or gallbladder polyps was conducted.The stone composition type and 14 kinds of bile components from these patients were analyzed.The bile parameters consisted of potassium (K +),sodium (Na+),chlorine (Cl-),calcium (Ca2+),bicarbonate (HCO3-),magnesium (Mg2+),aspartate aminotransferase (AST),glutamyltranspeptidase (GGT),alkaline phosphatase (ALP),total bilirubin (TBIL),total bile acid (TBA),cholesterol (CHO),lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and pH.Finally,the content of these bile components among the different types of stones and gallbladder polyps were compared.According to the composition determined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR),the gallstone patients were divided into five groups.Results Compared with other groups,the content of K +,GGT,ALP,TBIL,TBA and CHO in the calcium carbonate stone group were lower (P ＜ 0.05),while the levels of C1-,HCO3-and value of PH were higher (P ＜0.05).Furthermore,CHO content in the cholesterol stone group was higher than other groups (P ＜ 0.05)except for the gallbladder polyp group (P ＞ 0.05).In addition,there was no difference in bile contents among the pigment gallstone group,mixed stone group and polyp group (P ＞ 0.05).Conclusions In gallstone patients,the bile components of patients with calcium carbonate stones is significantly different.The high cholesterol content in bile is the main feature of cholesterol stone patients,and there is no significant difference in bile composition between patients with pigment stones and mixed stones.

Objective To construct a cardiovascular surgery nursing service action plan system based on patient's demand so as to provide a reference for nurse specialisms of cardiovascular surgery to provide good service for patients.Methods From January 2017 to June 2017, patients of cardiovascular surgery of a ClassⅢ Grade A hospital were investigated with the self-designed patients' demand for nursing service questionnaire according to literature analysis and interview results of patients. Weights of the primary index and secondary index were calculated by analytic hierarchy process so as to construct a cardiovascular surgery nursing service action plan system based on patient's demand.Results The cardiovascular surgery nursing service action plan system based on patient's demand included 5 primary indexes and 78 secondary indexes. The Cronbach's α of patients' demand for nursing service questionnaire was 0.974 with a good internal consistency. Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) was 0.843, andP value of Bartlett sphericity test was less than 0.001 with a good construct validity. The normalized weight coefficients of 5 primary indexes (physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, self-esteem needs and self-actualization needs) were 0.2205, 0.4798, 0.0771, 0.1339 and 0.0887 respectively with 0.0488 for the consistency ratio (CR). TheCR of 21 secondary indexes of physiological needs, 19 secondary indexes of safety needs, 11 secondary indexes of belongingness and love needs, 20 secondary indexes of self-esteem needs and 7 secondary indexes of self-actualization needs was 0.0488, 0.0508, 0.0823, 0.0877 and 0.0746 respectively. TheCR was all less than 0.1 showed a satisfactory consistency in the results of hierarchy sequencing.Conclusions The construction of cardiovascular surgerynursing service action plan system based on patient's demand with the strict scientific method improves patient satisfaction. It is worth to be a reference for nursing peers and managers of cardiovascular surgery.