Objective:To investigate the diagnostic value of Flt3 ligand (Flt3L) and growth arrest specific protein 6 (Gas6) in post-chemotherapy infection of patients with non-Hodgkin′s lymphoma.Methods:A total of 94 NHL patients admitted to Wuhan No.1 Hospital for chemotherapy from July 2019 to October 2020 were collected, and divided into infection group ( n=40) and non-infection group ( n=54). Fifty healthy subjects at the same period were selected as the control group to analyze the expression levels of Flt3L, Gas6 and general inflammatory indicators among the three groups. The relationship between Flt3L, Gas6 and general inflammatory indicators were analyzed. The predictive value of Flt3L and Gas6 for post-chemotherapy infection in NHL patients was analyzed by ROC curve. Kaplan-Meier curve was used to analyze the infection status of NHL chemotherapy patients with serum Flt3L and Gas6 levels. Results:The levels of serum Flt3L [807.80(215.10-1 232.00) pg/ml] and Gas6 [20.04(13.14-27.52) ng/ml] in the infection group were higher than those in the non-infection group and the control group, and the differences were statistically significant (all P<0.05);The levels of serum Flt3L[887.3(321.60-1 367.00) pg/ml] and Gas6[25.24(17.61-42.86) ng/ml] in the severely infection group were higher than those in the mildly infection group, and the differences were statistically significant (all P<0.05). serum Flt3L was negatively correlated with WBC and positively correlated with IL-6;serum Gas6 was negatively correlated with WBC.ROC curve analysis showed that the AUC and 95% CI of Flt3L and Gas6 were 0.814 (0.718-0.909) and 0.644 (0.523-0.765), respectively. The combined application of serum Flt3L with hsCRP, PCT and IL-6 significantly improved the diagnostic efficiency, and the area under the curve was 0.956, 0.923 and 0.865, respectively. Kaplan-Meier curve analysis showed that when serum Flt3L≥649.80 pg/ml and serum Gas6≥21.50 ng/ml in NHL chemotherapy patients, the infection rate was significantly increased ( P all<0.05). Conclusion:Serum Flt3L and Gas6 levels in post chemotherapy-infection of NHL patients were significantly increased and correlated with the severity of infection. Early detection of serum Flt3L levels is helpful to predict the diagnosis of infection in NHL patients after chemotherapy.

Objective To evaluate the detection performance of common strains and the antimicrobial binding capacity of four blood culture systems made by BMX-FA/N Plus,Zhengzhou Anto,Zhuhai DIER and Chongqing Zhongyuan.Methods According to the common pathogens of clinical bloodstream infections in Wuhan No.1 Hospital,ATCC standard isolates of Staphylococcus aureus,Streptococcus pneumoniae,Enterococcus faecalis,Escherichia coli,Pseudomonas aeruginosa,Haemophilus influenzae,Stenotrophomonas Maltophil,Bacteroides tenuis and Candida glabla were chosen to explore.Prefabricated bacterial suspension and sterile horse blood were injected into different brands of blood culture systems to simulate the blood samples of patients with non-antibiotic treatment and antibiotic treatment.Six commonly used clinical antibiotics,Imipenem,Piperacillin/Tazobactam,Cefoperazone/Sulbactam,Levofloxacin,Vancomycin and Micafungine,were added to the blood samples after simulated antibiotic treatment.The performance was evaluated by recording the positive bottles and the detection time of each brand culture systems within five days with and without antibiotic.Results In the absence of antibiotic,four blood culture systems showed 100％recovery on all of the pathogens.Staphylococcus aureus,Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Haemophilus influenzae were recovered earlier in DIER aerobic bottles than BMX-FA Plus aerobic bottles,and the differences were statistically significant(t=2.608,5.547,12.247,all P＜0.05).The time to detection of Staphylococcus aureus,Streptococcus pneumoniae,Enterococcus faecalis and Haemophilus influenzae in Zhongyuan anaerobic bottles was significantly faster than that of BMX-FA Plus anaerobic bottles,with an average shortening of 1.92～10.80 h,and the differences were statistically significant(t=30.187,5.367,33.068,24.855,all P＜0.05).When antibiotics added,BMX-FA Plus culture bottle showed 100％recovery to all the detecting pathogens with the peak concentration antibiotics except Cefoperazone/Sulbactam,while the recovery in Zhongyuan blood culture bottle also was 100％with peak concentration antibiotics of Piperacillin/Tazobactam,Levofloxacin and Micafunzin.The peak concentration of imipenem antibiotics in domestic bottles was only detected in Anto anaerobic bottles,with lower positive detection rate(66.7％)lower than that of BMX-FA Plus(100％)and a later detection,and the difference was statistically significant(t=-21.000,P=0.030).Conclusion In the absence of antibiotic interference,the positive detection rate of the above pathogens are the same for four blood culture systems,and the time to detection of DIER and Zhongyuan systems is shorter than that of BMX-FA/N Plus.In the presence of antibiotic interference,the detection ability to pathogens in BMX-FA/N Plus system is the best,followed by domestic Zhongyuan system.