重庆市1264株粪肠球菌和屎肠球菌耐药性监测

【摘 要】 目的 了解2011年中国重庆市主要7所教学医院临床分离粪肠球菌和屎肠球菌对各类抗菌药物的耐药性。方法 重庆市主要7所教学医院(6所综合性医院,1所儿童医院)按统一方案、采用统一的材料、方法和判断标准(CLSI 2011年版)进行粪肠球菌和屎肠球菌的耐药性监测。数据用WHONET 5.5软件按照CLSI 2011年版折点进行分析。结果 共分离到非重复粪肠球菌589株、屎肠球菌675株,对利奈唑胺、万古霉素、替考拉宁仍极敏感,耐药率<2%,万古霉素耐药粪肠球菌和屎肠球菌检出率分别为0.3%、0.7%。粪肠球菌对青霉素、氨苄西林、呋喃妥因的耐药率较低,分别为14.8%、8.6%和5.1%,对高浓度庆大霉素的耐药率分别为46.9%;屎肠球菌耐药性明显高于粪肠球菌,对青霉素和氨苄西林耐药率接都在90％左右。儿童和成人耐药率存在一定差别。结论 本市医院肠球菌感染以屎肠球菌为主, 粪肠球菌次之,两者耐药性明显不同, 监测其耐药情况对指导临床用药具有重要意义。     

羊源肠球菌溶血性的检测

[目的]了解羊源肠球菌溶血素的特性.[方法]以平板法、接触法、培养法、上清法及PCR法,对11株肠球菌临床分离株、30株健康羊分离株、肠球菌参考株和G群链球菌参考株进行了溶血性检测.[结果]接触法和上清法均不能检测到11株肠球菌临床分离株对兔血和羊血的溶血;平板法和培养法测得11株肠球菌临床分离株中,63.6%对兔血呈现β溶血,36.4%对羊血平板呈现α[溶血;基于检测cylA基因的PCR法,63.6%溶兔血菌能扩增出特异性条带,扩增产物序列与GenBank(L37110)中肠球菌同源性达99.3%.平板法测定30株健康羊分离株,初次分离培养53.3%对兔血β溶血,53.3%对羊血α溶血,43.3%对羊血β溶血,但二次传代后只有6%对兔血仍有溶血能力,且30株均不能检测到cylA.标准肠球菌对羊血平板有α溶血,而对兔血没有溶血性.[结论]提示肠球菌溶血性具有一定的溶血谱,不同检测方法检测的溶血情况不同;并且肠球菌溶血素必须在红细胞诱导下,通过细菌的生长繁殖产生;溶血素表型和基因型的检测不完全一致,对二者同时检测能提高肠球菌溶血素检测的准确性.     

肠球菌DM891129菌株在试管内降胆固醇作用的研究

本试验从健康学龄儿童粪便中分离出69株肠球菌菌株,从中选育出一株在体外降低胆固醇作用较强,生长良好,生物学特征稳定的菌株—DM891129,经鉴定为屎链球菌(streptococcus faecium),提示人肠道中某些肠球菌菌株可能参与胆固醇的代谢。     

肠球菌属细菌感染耐药性分析

目的了解中国医科大学附属盛京医院肠球菌属细菌的临床分布及耐药情况,为指导临床制定合理有效治疗方案提供理论依据。方法收集2017年1月1日至2017年12月31日我院门诊、住院患者肠球菌属细菌病原学资料,回顾性分析其菌种分布、标本分布、科室来源及其耐药特征。结果共分离出466株肠球菌属细菌,其中粪肠球菌211株(45.28%)、屎肠球菌255株(54.72%)。肠球菌属细菌均以尿液标本为最主要的来源,其次为全血标本,并且来源于尿液标本的肠球菌属细菌对临床常用抗生素的耐药率普遍高于非尿液标本肠球菌属细菌耐药率。儿科为屎肠球菌最主要的分布科室,而粪肠球菌则主要分布于泌尿外科。耐药性方面,除四环素、利福平和喹努普汀/达福普汀外,屎肠球菌对受检的其余18种抗生素的耐药性均高于粪肠球菌,但对喹努普汀/达福普汀无耐药性,而粪肠球菌对此种抗生素的耐药率却为100.00%。二者对克林霉素的耐药率均为100.00%。共检出耐万古霉素肠球菌7株(1.50%),耐替考拉宁肠球菌6株(1.28%),未发现对替加环素、利奈唑胺耐药菌株。结论屎肠球菌在肠球菌属细菌中占主要地位,且耐药率方面明显高于粪肠球菌,耐糖肽类抗生素菌株的出现需引起临床的高度警惕,应进一步加强耐药菌株的监测,并对临床应用抗生素加以规范。     

肠球菌属细菌的临床分布与耐药性分析

目的了解2012-2017年临床分离肠球菌的分布特征及耐药性,为临床合理用药提供依据。方法采用全自动微生物分析仪进行菌株鉴定及药敏试验,对肠球菌的临床分布与耐药情况进行统计分析。结果共分离出1 432株肠球菌,其中粪肠球菌为603株(42.11%),屎肠球菌为596株(41.62%)。肠球菌属细菌标本来源以尿液、胆汁和全血为主,分别占39.66%、34.50%和11.59%,其中粪肠球菌主要来自普外科、泌尿外科和ICU,而屎肠球菌主要来自ICU、普外科和消化内科。肠球菌总体对红霉素的耐药率最高(67.81%),其次为四环素(47.49%)、环丙沙星(47.00%)和左旋氧氟沙星(46.44%),对利奈唑胺和万古霉素的耐药率较低,分别为4.89%和1.19%。粪肠球菌对奎奴普丁/达福普汀、四环素的耐药率分别为83.91%和64.01%,明显高于屎肠球菌(均P0.05)。屎肠球菌对红霉素、青霉素G、氨苄西林、喹诺酮类的耐药率均超过85.00%,且均高于粪肠球菌(均P0.05)。粪肠球菌和屎肠球菌对利奈唑胺的耐药率分别为6.80%和2.18%,对万古霉素的耐药率分别为0.66%和0.67%。结论肠球菌感染病原菌以粪肠球菌和屎肠球菌为主,肠球菌属细菌对万古霉素和利奈唑胺仍然保持较高的敏感性,不同种的肠球菌其耐药性差异显著。     

医院内感染的肠球菌和肠道中的肠球菌耐药性差异的研究

目的 研究临床分离的院内感染的肠球菌对常用抗生系的耐药性及与健康人肠道中的肠球菌的耐药性比较。方法 应用琼脂稀释法检测从临床分离的５２株肠球菌和健康人肠道中分离的肠球菌的最低抑菌浓度（ＭＩＣ）。结果 肠球菌对临床常用的１１种抗生素的耐药性以万古霉素最低,ＭＩＣ５０为２,ＭＩＣ９０为４。屎肠球菌和粪肠球菌的耐药性对万古霉素有明显差异。院内感染分离的肠球菌和健康人肠道中的肠球菌的耐药性亦有显著的差异。     

引起院内感染的肠球菌和肠道中的肠球菌耐药性差异的研究

目的　研究临床分离的院内感染的肠球菌对常用抗生素的耐药性及与健康人肠道中的肠球菌的耐药性比较。方法　应用琼脂稀释法检测从临床分离的５２ 株肠球菌和健康人肠道中分离的肠球菌的最低抑菌浓度（ＭＩＣ） 。结果　肠球菌对临床常用的１１ 种抗生素的耐药性以万古霉素最低,ＭＩＣ５０ 为２ ,ＭＩＣ９０ 为４ 。屎肠球菌和粪肠球菌的耐药性对万古霉素有明显差异。院内感染分离的肠球菌和健康人肠道中的肠球菌的耐药性亦有显著的差异。结论　肠球菌对抗生素的敏感性以万古霉素最敏感,肠球菌应鉴定到种的水平以便更好地监控抗生素的耐药性。     

临床分离肠球菌的分布特征及耐药性分析

目的:了解我院临床分离肠球菌的分布特征及耐药现状,为临床合理用药提供依据。方法:对我院2010年1月至2012年12月期间所有临床分离的肠球菌分布情况及药敏结果进行回顾性分析。结果:临床共分离肠球菌242株,粪肠球菌分离率(55.0%)高于屎肠球菌(40.9%),屎肠球菌分离率有增高的趋势。标本来源以尿液(62.9%)、分泌物(10.3%)、血液(6.9%)为主。肠球菌对万古霉素、替考拉宁的敏感性最高,均高于90%。发现耐万古霉素的肠球菌(VRE)7株,其中5株同时耐高浓度的氨基糖苷类抗生素(HLAR);对克林霉素、复方磺胺、阿米卡星、庆大霉素、妥布霉素、苯唑西林耐、头孢西丁耐药率最高,均高于95%。屎肠球菌对青霉素类、氨苄西林、红霉素、呋喃妥因、环丙沙星耐药率均高于粪肠球菌;对四环素、奎努普丁/达福普汀耐药率低于粪肠球菌。结论:肠球菌是临床感染重要病原菌,且具有多重耐药性,屎肠球菌和粪肠球菌耐药水平差异较大,临床应根据药敏结果合理选择抗菌药物。     

190株肠球菌的鉴定及药敏分析

目的了解黑龙江省医院肠球菌的菌种分布及对常用抗生素耐药性的现状。方法对2004年8月至2006年6月检出的190株肠球菌的菌种鉴定及药敏结果进行回顾性分析。结果粪肠球菌(46.3%)分离率下降;屎肠球菌(33.2%)、鹑鸡肠球菌(13.7%)分离率增加。耐药株检出率屎肠球菌为85.1%,粪肠球菌为75.0%,鹑鸡肠球菌为70.2%。青霉素和呋喃妥因对粪肠球菌引起的感染有一定的疗效,万古霉素,替考拉宁是治疗肠球菌引起感染的最佳选择。结论肠球菌已成为引起临床感染的重要致病菌,它的天然耐药和多重耐药的特性使得临床可选治疗药物范围狭窄。应防止耐万古霉素肠球菌株的产生。     

正常人肠道肠球菌耐药性与生物膜形成关系的初探

目的了解正常人肠道肠球菌对临床常用抗生素的耐药水平和其生物膜的形成情况,并初步探讨肠球菌的耐药性与其生物膜形成之间的关系。方法用K-B法测定正常人肠道肠球菌对15种抗生素的敏感性,用96孔聚苯乙烯板进行生物膜形成试验。结果生物膜形成阳性菌株对高浓度链霉素、四环素和红霉素的耐药性(耐药率分别为42.9%、90.5%、71.4%)显著高于生物膜形成阴性的菌株(耐药率分别为4.8%、38.1%、42.8%),对其余12种抗生素的耐药性与生物膜形成阴性株差异无统计学意义。结论生物膜形成对肠球菌耐药性增强有一定作用,但还与其本身耐药性和抗生素的性质有关。     

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

正Dear Editor,In December 2019, a novel human coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe pneumonia(Coronavirus Disease 2019,COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, China(Wu et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). So far, this virus has spread to all areas of China and even to other countries. The epidemic has caused 67,102 confirmed infections with 1526 fatal cases     

Curcuminoids as inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase: A receptor based pharmacophore study with distance mapping of the active site

Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric that interacts irreversibly forming an adduct with thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), an enzyme responsible for redox control of cell and defence against oxidative stress. Docking at both the active sites of TrxR was performed to compare the potency of three naturally occurring curcuminoids, namely curcumin, demethoxy curcumin and bis-demethoxy curcumin. Results show that active sites of TrxR occur at the junction of E and F chains. Volume and area of both cavities is predicted. It has been concluded by distance mapping of the most active conformations that Se atom of catalytic residue SeCYS498, is at a distance of 3.56 from C13 of demethoxy curcumin at the E chain active site, whereas C13 carbon atom forms adduct with Se atom of SeCys 498. We report that at least one methoxy group in curcuminoids is necessary for interation with catalytic residues of thioredoxin. Pharmacophore of both active sites of the TrxR receptor for curcumin and demethoxy curcumin molecules has been drawn and proposed for design and synthesis of most probable potent antiproliferative synthetic drugs.     

Comparative morphology of the carpel in the Liliaceae: Hewardieae, Petrosavieae, and Tricyrteae

The young pistils in the melanthioid tribes, Hewardieae, Petrosavieae and Tricyrteae, are uniformly tricarpellate and syncarpous. They lack raphide idioblasts. All are multiovulate, with bitegmic ovules. The Petrosavieae are marked by the presence of septal glands and incomplete syncarpy. Tepals and stamens adhere to the ovary in the Hewardieae and the Petrosavieae but not in the Tricyrteae. Two vascular bundles occur in the stamens of the Hewartlieae and Tricyrtis latifolia. Ventral bundles in the upper part of the ovary of the Hewardieae are continuous with compound septal bundles and placental bundles in the lower part. Putative ventral bundles occur in the alternate position in the Tricyrteae and putative placental bundles in the opposite. position in the Petrosavieae. The dichtomously branched stigma in each carpel of the Tricyrteae is supplied by a bifurcated dorsal bundle.     

Enterovirus 71 3C proteolytically processes the histone H3 N-terminal tail during infection

Highlights
1. The N-terminal tail of histone H3 is specifically cleaved during EV71 infection.
2. Viral protease 3C is identified as a protease responsible for proteolytically processing the N-terminal H3 tail.
3. Our finding reveals a new epigenetic regulatory mechanism for Enterovirus 71 in virus-host interactions.     

Detection of EBV and HHV6 in the Brain Tissue of Patients with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare pediatric neurological disorder, and the exact etiology is not clear. Viral infection may be involved in the pathogenesis of RE, but conflicting results have reported. In this study, we evaluated the expression of both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpes virus (HHV) 6 antigens in brain sections from 30 patients with RE and 16 control individuals by immunohistochemistry. In the RE group, EBV and HHV6 antigens were detected in 56.7% (17/30) and 50% (15/30) of individuals, respectively. In contrast, no detectable EBV and HHV6 antigen expression was found in brain tissues of the control group. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in 20.0% (6/30) of individuals. In particular, a 4-year-old boy had a typical clinical course, including a medical history of viral encephalitis, intractable epilepsy, and hemispheric atrophy. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in neurons and astrocytes in the brain tissue, accompanied by a high frequency of CD8⁺ T cells. Our results suggest that EBV and HHV6 infection and the activation of CD8⁺ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of RE.     

Perinatal Vertical Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in Ruili,a Town on the Border between China and Myanmar

正Dear Editor,Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus in the family of Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus, is transmitted by the A.aegyptii or A. albopictus mosquito, and causes disease in humans characterized by fever, rash, and arthralgia (Silva and Dermody 2017; Suhrbier 2019). It was first reported in 1953 in Tanzania, and caused only a few outbreaks and sporadic cases in Africa and Asia in last century. However, in the epidemic in 2004, CHIKV acquired mutations that conferred enhanced transmission by the A. albopictus mosquito(Schuffenecker et al. 2006). Since then, it has successively caused outbreaks in Africa, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, the South America, and Europe (Zeller et al. 2016).     

Development of a Novel Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2

In conclusion, the novel visual RT-LAMP assay is a simple, rapid, and sensitive approach for detection of SARS-CoV-2, and it is ready for application in primary care and community hospitals or health care centers, and even patients' own houses in response to the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic because the assay does not require sophisticated equipment and skilled personnel. Furthermore, it is also ready to be used in fields for screening samples from wild animals and environments to facilitate the identification of potential intermediate hosts that mediate the cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.