Objective To observe the clinical efficacy of auricular point sticking plus Chinese medication rinsing in treating allergic purpura. Method A total of 147 patients were randomized into two groups. The two groups both received conventional Western medication, while the treatment group was additionally given auricular point sticking plus Chinese medication rinsing. The therapeutic efficacy was evaluated after successive 2-week treatment. Result The total effective rate was 98.7% in the treatment group versus 88.9% in the control group, and the between-group difference was statistically significant (P<0.05). Conclusion Based on conventional treatment of Western medicine, auricular point sticking plus Chinese medication rinsing is effective in treating allergic purpura.

Objective We aimed to elucidate the prevalence and the antibiotic resistance spectrum of nasal coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) colonization among HIV infectors in Guangzhou. Method After isolation and identification, all CoNS isolates were tested for the antibiotic susceptibility, and the antibiotic resistance genes. Result Among the 1 001 HIV infectors, the prevalence of CoNS and MRCoNS were 57.44% and 48.15%, respectively. The three predominant resistant antibiotics of MRCoNS isolates were penicillin, erythromycin and trimethoprim-sulfame thoxazole, while predominant detection rates of genes were Aac(6’)-aph(2’)、ermC and linA genes. The multidrug resistance rate of MRCoNS isolates were significantly higher than methicillin-susceptible coagulase-negative staphylococci (MSCoNS) isolates (80.69% versus 39.66%, P<0.001, OR=6.36). Conclusions The prevalence and multidrug resistant rates of nasal colonization CoNS and MRCoNS are high among HIV infectors in Guangzhou. MRCoNS isolates were 6.36 times more likely to be of multidrug resistance than MSCoNS isolates.