Objective To investigate the quality of autoantibody testing around the whole country.Methods Laboratories that perform autoantibody testing were recruited by letters or telephone communications.The auto-antibodies examined by the quality-control survey included anti-nuclear antibody (ANA),anti-double-stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) antibody,anti-extractable nuclear antigens (anti-ENA),antimitochondria antibody (AMA),anti-smooth muscle antibody (ASMA),and anti-citrulline antibody (CCP).Each autoantibody was tested for 3 samples,so 15 samples were tested in total.Sample distribution and data analysis were double-blinded.Qualitative interpretation,staining patterns were evaluated by IIF.The agreement with qualitative interpretation for each specimen was evaluated by ELISA,and Immuno-Blot/Dot-Blot.Results One hundred and eight laboratories participated in this study.The testing methods included indirect immumofluorescence (IIF),immuno-Blot (IB),Dot-Blot (DB),double diffusion method (DID),enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (ELISA),chemo-illuminescent assay,Dot-immunogold filtration assay.The accuracy rates were 82％,83％,95％,96％,86％,respectively for ANA,anti-dsDNA,AMA,ASMA,and anti-CCP antibody.Anti-ENA were further divided into anti-SNP,anti-Sm,anti-SSA,anti-SSB,anti-Scl-70 subgroups,and the accuracy rates were 84％,95％,98％,98％,88％,respectively.The distribution of quantitative values by different laboratories for ANA (by IIF),anti-dsDNA,anti-CCP antibody (by ELISA) varied remarkably.Conclusion Hospitals that enrolled in the survey and the items involved for quality control were increasing year by year.The accurate rates of ANA,anti-dsDNA in this survey were similar to the past national quality control surveys,the quality of AMA/ASMA,anti-CCP antibodies test was better than that of the past surveys,but the quality of anti-ENA antibodies test needs to be improved.

OBJECTIVE In order to take further study of principles and risk factors of infection breakouts at hospitals to reduce infection rates,and provide all levels of management with infectious information.METHODS After collecting the data of hospital infections and analyzing the datum structure of the hospital information system,we developed the software of nosocomial infection information management system using word `segmentation.RESULTS The subsystem could monitor infection of all inpatients,collect and analyze the data of infection examination,patients infected,usage of antibiotics and intervening operations,therefore,relieve information administers from collection works and make them focus on analysis,guidance and problem solutions.CONCLUSIONS As a part of the hospital information system,nosocomial infection information management system can improve the affectivity and efficiency of hospital infection administers due to its accuracy,timeliness and wide coverage.

Protamines are a group of highly basic proteins first discovered in spermatozoon that allow for denser packaging of DNA than histones and will result in down-regulation of gene transcription[1].It is well recognized that the Autographa californica multicapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) encodes P6.9,a protamine-like protein that forms the viral subnucleosome through binding to the viral genome[29].Previous research demonstrates that P6.9 is essential for viral nucleocapsid assembly,while it has no influence on viral genome replication[31].In the present study,the role of P6.9 in viral gene transcription regulation is characterized.In contrast to protamines or other protamine-like proteins that usually down-regulate gene transcription,P6.9 appears to up-regulate viral gene transcription at 12-24 hours post infection (hpi),whereas it is non-essential for the basal level of viral gene transcription.Fluorescence microscopy reveals the P6.9's co-localization with DNA is temporally and spatially synchronized with P6.9's impact on viral gene transcription,indicating the P6.9-DNA association contributes to transcription regulation.Chromatin fractionation assay further reveals an unexpected co-existence of P6.9 and host RNA polymerase Ⅱ in the same transcriptionally active chromatin fraction at 24 hpi,which may probably contribute to viral gene transcription up-regulation in the late infection phase.

Objective To investigate the role and the mechanism of ppk1 gene (coding for polyphosphate kinase 1) in oxidative stress resistance in uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC).MethodsMutant strains with ppk1-deletion (△pk1) and complemented strains (△pk1-C) were constructed based on the UPEC strain CFT073.A comparative analysis was conducted to analyze survival rates of CFT073, △pk1 and △pk1-C strains at different time points while they were under oxidative stress.Differences in protein expression between CFT073 and △pk1 strains were analyzed using mass spectrometric analysis.Differences between CFT073 and △pk1 strains in expression of katG and katE genes were analyzed using real-time quantitative RT-PCR.Results The survival rate of △pk1 strains was lower than that of CFT073 strains at every time point, while the survival rate of △pk1-C strains was basically the same as that of CFT073 strains.Gel image analysis and mass spectrometric analysis revealed that six proteins were down-regulated and one was up-regulated in △pk1 strains as compared with those in CFT073 strains.Expression of the catalase-coding genes katG and katE in △pk1 strains were respectively (20.5±8.2)% and (20.9±6.9)% of those in CFT073 strains (P<0.05).Conclusion The ppk1 gene plays an important role in oxidative stress resistance in UPEC by modulating the expression of catalase-coding genes katG and katE.

of DE-MRI and the specificity and accuracy of LDDSE were significantly lower than that of DE-MRI (P < 0. 05). Conclusion DE-MRI with high specificity and accuracy, potentially, is a valuable imaging method for the detection of viable myocardium.

Objective The study was to evaluate the behavioral differences in learning and memory abilities among three ani -mal models of Alzheimer′s disease. Methods Three SD rat models(n=20) were used in this study.The first SD rat model was es-tablished by intracerebral injection of Aβ25-35 into the bilateral hippocampus , the second mouse model was induced by intraperitoneal in-jection of scopolamine and the third was a senescence accelerated mouse model .Morris Water maze test was performed to investigate behavioral differences by comparison to corresponding blank control groups ( sham operation group , blank group and P8 group ) . Results The learning and memory abilities of senescence accelerated rats and scopolamine -treated rats were worse than those of the corresponding control groups, especially the scopolamine-treated rat ([35.47 ±3.78]s vs [50.61 ±3.94]s, P<0.01).There was no significant difference between Aβrats and sham-operated rats(P>0.05). Conclusion The model of Alzheimer′s disease in-duced by intraperitoneal injection of scopolamine represents more distinct changes in learning and memory abilities .Morris water maze test can be used to well evaluate whether the scopolamine-induced model is successfully established or not .

This meta-analysis compared the therapeutic effect of cable pin system (CPS) with K-wire tension band (KTB) in the treatment of patella fractures among Chinese Han population.The databases of PubMed,Cochrane library,China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI),Chinese WanFang and Chinese VIP were searched for studies on CPS versus KTB in the treatment of patella fractures among Chinese Han population.Literatures were screened according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria.The quality of the studies was assessed,and meta-analysis was performed using the Cochrane Collaboration's REVMAN 5.3 software.A total of 932 patients from 15 studies were included in this meta-analysis (426 fractures treated with CPS and 506 fractures treated with KTB).There were significant differences in duration of hospital stay [mean difference (MD)=-1.07;95％ confidence interval (CI):-1.71 to-0.43],fracture healing time (MD=-l.23;95％ CI:-1.68 to-0.77),flexion degree of knee joint at 6th month after operation (MD=14.82;95％ CI:10.93 to 18.71),incidence of postoperative complication [risk ratio (RR)=0.16;95％ CI:0.09 to 0.27] and excellent-good rate of B(o)stman score (RR=1.09;95％ CI:1.03 to 1.16) between the CPS group and KTB group,while no significant difference was found in operative time between the two groups (MD=-4.52;95％ CI:-11.70 to 2.67).For the treatment of patella tractures among Chinese Han population,limited evidence suggests that the CPS is more suitable than the KTB when considering the hospital stay,fracture healing time,flexion degree of knee at 6th month after operation,incidence of postoperative complication and excellent-good rate of B(o)stman joint score.Due to the limitation of high quality evidence and sample size,more large-scale randomized controlled trials are needed to validate the findings in the future.

Objective This study was aimed to analysis the relationship of BK polyomavirus ( BKV) and hemorrhagic cystitis ( HC ) in patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT).Methods Data of 80 patients who received HSCT and took regular urine test every week from June 2015 to April 2018 in the Third Xiangya Hospital of Central South University was retrospectively analyzed, they were 35 females and 45 males (aged 20-40 years, median age 30 years), and 31 cases with acute myeloid leukemia ( AML) , 24 cases with acute lymphoblastic leukemia ( ALL) , 15 cases with aplastic anemia ( AA ) , 4 cases with chronic myeloid leukemia ( CML ) , 6 cases with other diseases such as myelodysplastic syndrome ( MDS) in the study population.The positive rate and incidence of HC were analyzed.Patients who infected with the BK virus were divided into HC group and non -HC group according to occurrence of HC.BK viral load were compared in two groups .Urine BK viral load were analyzed after logarithmic transformation.Data that conforms to a normal distribution is expressed as mean ± standard deviation.t test, ANOVA and ROC curve were used to statistical analysis .Skewed data is expressed in median ( interquartile range ) , non-normal distribution parameters were compared by Wilcoxon test .Results Among 80 patients, 43 recipients (53.75％) became urinary BK positive, with 19 patients developed HC (23.75％), all of the 19 HC patients have urinary BK positive , and none of 37 BK-negative patients developed HC;the urine BKV level of the initial time and the peak time in HC group were (7.59 ±2.46) lg copy/ml, (10.56 ±1.71) lg copy/ml, the urine BKV level of the initial time and the peak time in non-HC group were (5.75 ±2.10) lg copy/ml,(7.31 ±2.29) lg copy /ml.The urine BKV level of the initial time and the peak time in HC group was higher than in non-HC group ( t=2.642, P=0.012 and t=5.147, P=0.000 respectively), when analyzing the urine BKV level of the initial time in HC group and non-HC group, the best threshold is 5.23 lg copy/ml(1.68 ×105 copy/ml),with a sensitivity of 84.20％and specificity of 54.17％, when analyzing the urine BKV level of the peak time in HC group and non-HC group, the best threshold is 9.75 lg copy/ml(5.62 ×109 copy/ml),with a sensitivity of 84.20％and specificity of 83.33％, area under curve of each other were 0.728 (95％ CI 0.575-0.881) and 0.875 (95％ CI 0.769-0.981) respectively.Conclusions The BK viral load is closely related with HC in HSCT patients .The cut-off level of 1.68 ×105 copy/ml when analyzing the urine BKV level of the initial time , and the cut-off level of 5.62 × 109 when analyzing the urine BKV level of the peak time , help to forecast or auxiliary diagnose HC .

Objective Toinvestigatethethrombusclinicalcurativeeffectandpracticalvalueintreatmentofdeepveinthrombosis (DVT)byusingmodifiedaspirationcatheter.Methods Atotalof35patientswhometthediagnosticcriteriaofDVTwererandomly assignedintoexperimentalandcontrolgroups.Afterasufficientpreoperativepreparation,thepatientsweredividedintotheexperimentalgroup (n=18,usingmodifiedaspirationcatheterwithsubsequenturokinasethrombolysisandconventionalanticoagulationtherapy)andthe controlgroup [n=17,usingthe8Fvascularsheaths (COOK,USA)duringtheprocedure,subsequenturokinasethrombolysisand conventionalanticoagulationtherapy].Thepatencyofvessels,theperimeterdifferenceandthecomplicationweredocumented.Theresultswere comparedbetweenthetwogroups.Results Inexperimentalgroup,thrombusremovalofgradeⅣ (removalratelessthan0%)was 0%in0case,gradeⅢ (removalratelessthan50%)was5.56%in1case,gradeⅡ (removalrategreaterthan50%)was94.44%in ncontrolgroup,thrombusremovalofgradeⅣwas23.53%in4cases,gradeⅢwas52.94%in9cases,gradeⅡwas23.53%in4cases. Thedifferencesofthelegcircumferenceoftheaffectedextremitiesat15cmaboveandbelowthekneejointattimeofdischargewere alllessthanthoseatadmission.Thedifferencesinbothpreoperativeandpostoperativedatabetweenthetwogroupswerestatistically significant(bothP<0.05).Noseriouscomplicationswerefoundintwogroups.Conclusion UsingmodifiedaspirationcathetertreatingDVTisa safeandeffectivemethod,whichhashighsuctionefficiencyandfewcomplications.Therefore,itisworthytoberecommended. 17casesI.