Objective To investigate T-bet mRNA expression on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and its relations with allergen specific IgE (SIgE), eosinophile cationic protein (ECP) levels, and allergic symptom in patients with allergic rhinitis (AR). Methods The allergen, SIgE, and ECP in serum of patients with AR were detected by Unicap CAP system. Blood samples were taken from 15 healthy controls and 35 house dust mite allergic patients. PBMC was isolated by density gradient centrifugation and one part of them was cultured with mite allergen at a concentration of 50 μg/mL. PBMC was subjected to analysis of T-bet mRNA expression using semiquantitative reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Results The ratio of T-bet to β-actin mRNA levels was 0.418 ± 0. 101 in patients of AR and 0.706 ± 0.091 in healthy controls and the difference was significant (P ＜ 0.01). The expression intensity of T-bet mRNA was not related to varying severity of allergic symptom and ECP levels ( r = - 0.227, - 0.033, P ＞ 0.05). However, there was an inverse correlation between expression intensity of T-bet mRNA and SIgE concentration (r = -0.375, P ＜ 0.05). There was a positive correlation between SIgE and allergic symptom scores ( r = 0.426, P ＜ 0.05). After that PBMC was stimulated by mite allergen, the expression intensity of T-bet mRNA, ECP, and SIgE changed very little ( P ＞ 0.05). Conclusion Down-regulated expression of T-bet mRNA in mite-AR patients is not related to serum ECP and symptom scores but one of important links in the mechanism of imbalance of Th1/Th2 in the occurrence of AR. Specific allergen has no effect on T-bet mRNA, ECP, and SIgE of children and adults with AR in vitro. The level of SIgE objectively and directly indicates the severity of allergic symptom, but T-bet did not. T-bet may be one of indirect factors which affect the level of IgE.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical characteristics and common etiology of vertigo. METHOD: The clinical data of 168 patients with vertigo in the department of otolaryngolology and neurology from December 2007 to March 2009 were retrospectively analyzed The patients were inquired and examined by pure tone average thresholds, videonystagmography, Dix-Hallpike test, cervical spine X-ray, skull CT and (or) MRI and transcranial Doppler. RESULT: One hundred and thirty-four patients with vertigo were of peripheral origin, with 66 cases benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, 30 cases Meniere's disease, 24 cases sudden deafness, 5 cases vestibular neuritis, 5 cases otitis media ,2 cases ear herpes zosters and 2 cases ototoxicity. Among 26 patients with vertigo of central, 20 patients were vertebrobasilar TIA. CONCLUSION The most common etiology of the vestibular peripheral vertigo is the benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Detailed history and the features of vertigo, particular about the duration of vertigo and hearing change, may provide the important evidences for the accurate diagnosis and differential diagnosis of vertigo.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Electronystagmography ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Retrospective Studies ; Vertigo ; diagnosis ; etiology ; physiopathology ; Young Adult

Objective Assessing the detection performance of testing mycoplasma pneumonia(MP) type-specific antibodies by Chemiluminescence immunoassay(CLIA), in order to evaluate the feasibility of screening MP infection by CLIA.Methods Total of 280 cases of respiratory disease patients,20 examples infected mycoplasma pneumonia and 20 cases health volunteers as the control group were enrolled in this study from August 2016 to October 2017 in the Nanfang Hospital,Southern Medical University,testing MP antibodies by CLIA,Enzyme linked immunosorbent assay(ELISA)and Passive agglutination method(PA) respectively.According to the performance evaluation scheme, we evaluate the performance indexs of detecting MP antibodies by CLIA, including lower limit of detection, intra-batch precision, inter-batch precision,linearity range,clinical coincidence rate and consistency compared with ELISA and PA,and the results were analyzed by EXCEL and SPSS version 22.0.Results MP-IgG CLIA reagent:Limit of blank, Limit of detection and Limit of quantitation were 1.9 AU/ml,4.5 AU/ml and 5.1 AU/ml respectively;Coefficient Variation(CV)of intra-batch precision in high and low concentration levels were 2.98% and 2.45%respectively; CV of inter-batch precision in high and low concentration levels were 6.44% and 6.83% respectively;both the Linear range and Clinical report range are from 2.0 AU/ml to 253.0 AU/ml;the linear regression equation R 2≥0.990 0,0.85≤b≤1.15.MP-IgM CLIA reagent: CV of intra-batch precision in high and low concentration levels were 2.55% and 2.86% respectively; CV of inter-batch precision in high and low concentration levels were 4.82% and 5.46% respectively.The total clinical coincidence rate of MP-IgG and MP-IgM detected by CLIA were 90.0%and 97.5%respectively.The kappa values of MP-IgG and MP-IgM detected by CLIA and ELISA were 0.763(P=0.000)and 0.804(P=0.023)respectively, with Consistent percentage of 88.9% and 91.4% respectively.The kappa value of CLIA and PA was 0.541(P=0.063)with a consistent percentage of 79.6%.Conclusions The results of study show that detecting MP type-specific antibodies by CLIA meet the prescribed performance indexes. Detecting MP type-specific antibodies by CLIA,which is precise, speedy and automated, could be applied to clinical and replace ELISA and PA, becoming the prior choice in clinical for MP infection screening.

Objective To analyze the epidemiological characteristics and spatial distribution of human brucellosis in Fujian province during 2011-2016,and provide evidence for the prevention and control of the disease.Methods The surveillance data of human brucellosis in Fujian during 2011-2016 was analyzed with software R 3.3.1,ArcGIS 10.3.1,GeoDa 1.8.8 and SaTScan 9.4.3.Results During 2011-2016,a total of 319 human brucellosis cases were reported,the incidence increased year by year (F=11.838,P=0.026) with the annual incidence of 0.14/100 000.The male to female rate ratio of the incidence was 2.50 ∶ 1.Farmers and herdsmen accounted for 57.37％.The incidence was 0.40/100 000 in Zhangzhou and 0.32/100 000 in Nanping,which were higher than other areas.The number of affected counties (district) increased from 12 in 2011 to 28 in 2016,showing a significant increase (F=13.447,P=0.021).The Moran' s I of brucellosis in Fujian between January 2011 and December 2016 was 0.045,indicating the presence of a high value or low value clustering areas.Local spatial autocorrelation analysis showed that,high-high clustering area (hot spots) were distributed in Zhangpu,Longhai,Longwen,etc,while high-low clustering areas were distributed in Nan' an and Jiaocheng,etc.Temporal scanning showed that there were three clustering areas in areas with high incidence,the most possible clustering,occurring during January 1,2013-December 31,2015,covered 6 counties,including Yunxiao,Pinghe,Longhai,etc,and Zhangpu was the center,(RR =7.96,LLR=92.62,P＜0.001).Conclusions The epidemic of human brucellosis in Fujian is becoming serious,and has spread to general population and non-epidemic areas.It is necessary to strengthen the prevention and control of human brucellosis in areas at high risk.