1.Comparison on real-time RT-PCR and ELISA methods in detection of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome(SFTS) cases
Li WANG ; Jingwen LIU ; Zhaolei FENG ; Daying GENG ; Guangying YUAN
Chinese Journal of Experimental and Clinical Virology 2015;29(4):351-353
Objective To compare the difference of the positive rates between real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM methods in diagnosis of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) cases.Method 138 serum samples from 78 suspected acute SFTS patients were collected continuously in our hospital,2014.And 91 serum samples from 49 confirmed cases were detected by real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM,simultaneously.The results were analyzed by Software SPSS17.0.Result 138 serum samples were detected by the real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM methods,and the positive rate was 51.45%,43.48% respectively.There was significant difference between their positive rates (P < 0.05).The courses of disease influenced the positive rates notablely in 49 confirmed cases between the real-time RT-PCR and ELISA-IgM assays.When the serum samples were collected within 8 days onset of illness to be detected,the positive rate of real-time RT-PCR method was higher than that of ELISA-IgM method.While the positive rate of ELISA-IgM showed a rising tendency along with the course extension.Conclusion Real-time RT-PCR would be the first choice for the early diagnosis of suspected SFTS cases.While ELISA-IgM methods could be the necessary supplemental assay and it would be the important diagnostic method as the extension of the course of SFTS.
2.The clinical values of ultra-early enteral nutrition combined with microecopharmaceutics on patients with severe acute pancreatitis
Zhaolei QIU ; Zhenjie WANG ; Feng CHENG ; Qi SONG ; Zhipeng XU ; Zhilin SHAO ; Chuanming ZHENG ; Lei LI ; Hai JIANG ; Zhaohui DU ; Hehe DOU
Chinese Journal of Emergency Medicine 2018;27(9):967-971
Objective To analyze the clinical values of super early enteral nutrition combined with microecopharmaceutics and delayed enteral nutrition on patients with severe acute pancreatitis. Methods Clinical data of thirty patients diagnosed as severe acute pancreatitis in our emergency department during January 2013 and December 2017 were reviewed retrospectively. Patients were divided into the treatment group (n=15, patients given enteral nutrition combined with microecopharmaceutics within 24 h after admission) and the control group (n=15, patients given delayed enteral nutrition after 48 h of admission). Two weeks after the treatment, the serum variables of C-reactive protein, total protein, albumin, recovery time of urine and blood amylase, length of hospital stay and APACHE Ⅱ score were compared between the two groups by using paired samples t test. Results The C-reactive protein [(46.7±13.1) mg/L vs. (190.72±19.3) mg/L, t=10.4, P<0.01] and APACHE Ⅱ score [(7.2±1.9) vs.(9.3±2.4),t=2.7,P<0.05] of the treatment group were significantly lower than those in the control group. The total protein [(58.1±6.3)g/L vs.(52.6±5.4)g/L, t=2.5, P<0.05] and albumin [(29.9±3.2)g/L vs.(22.0±2.8)g/L, t=7.12, P<0.01] of the treatment group were significantly higher than those in the control group. The recovery time of urine amylase [(13.2±2.1)d vs.(18.7±3.9)d, t=4.9, P<0.01] and blood amylase [(7.5±3.0)d vs.(11.1±3.4)d, t=3.1, P<0.01], and length of hospital stay[(14.9±4.5)d vs.(27.1±5.3)d, t=6.9, P<0.01] were significantly shorter in the treatment group compared with those in the control group. Conclusions Ultra-early enteral nutrition combined with microecopharmaceutics can shorten the length of hospital stay of patients with severe acute pancreatitis, and is safe and effective.
3.Effects of different target blood pressure resuscitation on peripheral blood inflammatory factors and hemodynamics in patients with traumatic hemorrhagic shock
Zhilin SHAO ; Zhaohui DU ; Ruyi WANG ; Zhenjie WANG ; Xiandi HE ; Huaxue WANG ; Yan LI ; Zhaolei QIU ; Lei LI ; Chuanming ZHENG ; Feng CHENG
Chinese Critical Care Medicine 2019;31(4):428-433
Objective To investigate the target blood pressure level of restrictive fluid resuscitation in patients with traumatic hemorrhagic shock. Methods Sixty patients with traumatic hemorrhagic shock admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College from January 2016 to December 2018 were enrolled. All patients were resuscitated with sodium acetate ringer solution after admission. According to the difference of mean arterial pressure (MAP) target, the patients were divided into low MAP (60 mmHg ≤ MAP < 65 mmHg, 1 mmHg = 0.133 kPa), middle MAP (65 mmHg ≤ MAP < 70 mmHg) and high MAP (70 mmHg ≤ MAP < 75 mmHg) groups by random number table using the admission order with 20 patients in each group. Those who failed to reach the target MAP after 30-minute resuscitation were excluded and supplementary cases were deferred. The restrictive fluid resuscitation phase was divided into three phases: before fluid resuscitation, liquid resuscitation for 30 minutes and 60 minutes. The most suitable resuscitation blood pressure level was further speculated by monitoring the inflammatory markers and hemodynamics in different periods in each group of patients. Pearson correlation analysis was used to detect the correlation of variables. Results Before fluid resuscitation, there was no significant difference in hemodynamics or expressions of serum cytokines among the three groups. Three groups of patients were resuscitated for 30 minutes to achieve the target blood pressure level and maintain 30 minutes. With the prolongation of fluid resuscitation time, the central venous pressure (CVP), cardiac output (CO) and cardiac index (CI) were increased slowly in the three groups, and reached a steady state at about 30 minutes after resuscitation, especially in the high MAP group and the middle MAP group. The expressions of serum inflammatory factors in the three groups were gradually increased with the prolongation of fluid resuscitation time. Compared with the low MAP group and the high MAP group, after 30 minutes of resuscitation the middle MAP group was superior to the other two groups in inhibiting the expressions of pro-inflammatory factors tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α), interleukin-6 (IL-6) and promoting anti-inflammatory factors IL-10 [TNF-α mRNA (2-ΔΔCt):0.21±0.13 vs. 0.69±0.34, 0.57±0.35; IL-6 mRNA (2-ΔΔCt): 0.35±0.31 vs. 0.72±0.39, 0.59±0.42; IL-10 mRNA (2-ΔΔCt): 1.25±0.81 vs. 0.61±0.46, 0.82±0.53; all P < 0.05], but there was no significant difference in promoting the expression of IL-4 mRNA among three groups. At 60 minutes of resuscitation, compared with the low MAP group and the high MAP group, the middle MAP group could significantly inhibit the expressions of TNF-α, IL-6 and promote IL-10 [TNF-α mRNA (2-ΔΔCt): 0.72±0.35 vs. 1.05±0.54, 1.03±0.49; IL-6 mRNA (2-ΔΔCt): 0.57±0.50 vs. 1.27±0.72, 1.01±0.64; IL-10 mRNA (2-ΔΔCt): 1.41±0.90 vs. 0.81±0.48, 0.94±0.61; all P < 0.05]. Compared with the high MAP group, the middle MAP group had significant differences in promoting the expression of IL-4 mRNA (2-ΔΔCt: 1.32±0.62 vs. 0.91±0.60, P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in serum cytokine expressions at different time points of resuscitation between the low MAP group and the high MAP group (all P > 0.05). Correlation analysis showed that there was a strong linear correlation between MAP and mRNA expressions of TNF-α, IL-6, IL-10 in the middle MAP group (r value was 0.766, 0.719, 0.692, respectively, all P < 0.01), but had no correlation with IL-4 (r = 0.361, P = 0.059). Fitting linear regression analysis showed an increase in 1 mmHg per MAP, the expression of TNF-α mRNA increased by 0.027 [95% confidence interval (95%CI) = 0.023-0.031, P < 0.001], IL-6 mRNA increased by 0.021 (95%CI = 0.017-0.024, P < 0.001), and IL-10 mRNA increased by 0.049 (95%CI = 0.041-0.058, P < 0.001). Conclusions When patients with traumatic hemorrhagic shock received restrict fluid resuscitation at MAP of 65-70 mmHg, the effect of reducing systemic inflammatory response and improving hemodynamics is better than the target MAP at 60-65 mmHg or 70-75 mmHg. It is suggested that 65-70 mmHg may be an ideal target MAP level for restrictive fluid resuscitation.
4.Evaluation of a new ultrafast real-time fluorescence polymerase chain reaction and common assays in the detection of novel Bunya virus
Jingwen LIU ; Ye SUN ; Li WANG ; Daying GENG ; Zhaolei FENG ; Guangying YUAN
Chinese Journal of Infectious Diseases 2020;38(2):99-104
Objective:To investigate the specificity and sensitivity of four methods including ultrafastreal-time fluorescence polymerase chain reaction (PCR), real-time fluorescence (RT)-PCR, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and gold immunochromatography assay (GICA) for the detection of novel Bunya virus, so as to provide experimental basis for the early diagnosis of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS).Methods:Serum samples from 86 clinically diagnosis SFTS patients admitted to the Jinan Infectious Diseases Hospital Affiliated to Shandoug University were tested by ultrafast real-time fluorescence PCR, RT-PCR, ELISA and GICA during June 1 to September 30, 2017. Chi-square test was used for statistical analysis.Results:Among 86 serum samples, the positive rate of novel Bunya virus of ultrafast real-time fluorescence PCR, RT-PCR, IgM-ELISA, IgG-ELISA, IgM-GICA and IgG-GICA were 82(95.34%), 79(91.86%), 41(47.67%), 8(9.3%), 19(22.09%) and 3(3.49%), respectively. The specificity of ultrafast real-time fluorescence PCR was 100%, and the sensitivity was 1×10 3 copies/mL.Repeated amplification test showed that the variation coefficient of the computed tomography value was <2%.During phases one, two and three, the positive rates of ultrafast real-time fluorescence PCR were 41(97.62%), 34(94.44%) and 7(87.50%), and RT-PCR were 39(92.86%), 33(91.67%) and 7(87.50%), respectively. During phases one and two, the positive rate of ultrafast real-time fluorescence PCR was slightly higher. The positive rate of anti-novel Bunya virus antibody (IgM) tested by ELISA had a significant increase from phase one (28.57%)to phase three (87.50%). There were statistical differences between phase two and phase, as well as between phase three and phase one ( χ2=8.347 and 7.561, respectively, both P<0.01). IgM-GICA also had an increase from phase one (14.29%) to phase two (33.33%)( χ2=3.962, P<0.01), while it was still lower than the other tests.In phase one, the positive rate of RT-PCR was higher than those of ELISA(both IgM and IgG)and GICA(both IgM and IgG)( χ2=33.740, 55.080, 49.010 and 64.340, respectively, all P<0.01). In phase two, the positive rate of RT-PCR was higher than those of ELISA(both IgM and IgG)and GICA(both IgM and IgG) ( χ2=7.700, 46.720, 23.700 and 50.630, respectively, all P<0.01). In phase three, the positive rates of ultrafast real-time fluorescence PCR, RT-PCR and IgM-ELISA were equivalent, which were all higher than those of IgG-ELISA and GICA (both IgM and IgG). The positive rates of RT-PCR and IgG-ELISA, IgM-GICA and IgG-GICA were significantly different (all χ2=6.250, all P<0.05). Conclusion:In the early detection of novel Bunya virus, ultrafast real-time fluorescence PCR has higher sensitivity, specificity, good repeatability and high stability, which greatly reduces the amplification time compared with the traditional RT-PCR, and is of great value in the early and rapid diagnosis of SFTS.
5.Mechanism of ulinastatin in reducing lung inflammatory injury in rats with hemorrhagic shock.
Ying CHEN ; Zhipeng XU ; Qi SONG ; Zhenjie WANG ; Zhong JI ; Zhaolei QIU ; Feng CHENG ; Hai JIANG
Journal of Southern Medical University 2019;39(10):1232-1238
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the effect of ulinastatin on the inflammatory mediators and their signaling pathways miR-146a/TLR4/NF-κB in rats with hemorrhagic shock.
METHODS:
Seventy-two SD rats were randomly assigned into shock without resuscitation group (SR group, =24), acetated Ringer's solution resuscitation group (AR group, =24) and ulinastatin treatment group (=24). In all the 3 groups hemorrhagic shock models were established by femoral artery bleeding (with the mean arterial pressure maintained at 30-40 mmHg) without resuscitation (in SR group) or with resuscitation (in AR and ulinastatin groups) using acetated Ringer's solution for 30 min at 60 min after the onset of shock. At 1, 4, and 6 h after the shock onset or immediately after shock if the rats died, the lung tissues were taken for measurement of mRNA expressions of miR-146a, tumor necrosis factor- (TNF-), interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-4, IL-6 and IL-10 using real-time quantitative PCR and the protein expressions of TLR4, MyD88, IκB-, p-IκB-, NF-κB p65, IRAK4, p-IRAK4 (Thr345, Ser346), p-IRAK4 (Thr342) and TRAF6 using Western blotting. The lung histopathology of the rats was examined under optical microscope with HE staining.
RESULTS:
Compared with the SR group, the rats in the AR group showed slightly alleviated inflammatory infiltration in the lung tissues with significantly increased mRNA levels of miR-146a, IL-4 and IL-10 ( < 0.05) and protein expressions of IκB-, p-IRAK4 (Thr342) and p-IRAK4 (Thr345, ser346) ( < 0.05), and decreased mRNA levels of TNF-, IL-1 and IL-6 ( < 0.05) and protein expressions of TLR4, MyD88, NF-κB p65, p-IκB-, IRAK-4 and TRAF6 ( < 0.05). Compared with those in AR group, the rats in ulinastatin group showed further alleviation of inflammatory lung tissue injury, with increased mRNA levels of miR-146a, IL-4 and IL-10 ( < 0.01) and protein expressions of IκB-, p-IRAK4 and p-IRAK4 ( < 0.01) and decreased mRNA levels of TNF-, IL-1 and IL-6 ( < 0.01) and protein expressions of TLR4, MyD88, NF-κB p65, p-IκB-, IRAK-4 and TRAF6 ( < 0.01).
CONCLUSIONS
Ulinastatin combined with acetated Ringer's solution resuscitation alleviates lung inflammations in rats with hemorrhagic shock possibly by enhancing miR-146a expression to regulate TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathway through a negative feedback mechanism and thus modulate the balance of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory factors.