Antibody response to acute Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in a burn wound

Abstract Immunoblotting techniques were used to study the antibody response of a burn patient during the acute phase of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection. The results showed the presence in the patient's serum of antibodies to outer-membrane proteins (OMPs) including iron-regulated membrane proteins (IRMPs) of the infecting strain of P. aeruginosa as well as a representative index of Enterobacteriaceae. The patient's serum also contained antibodies which reacted with OMPs of other serotypes of P. aeruginosa .     

Host ecology shapes geographical variation for resistance to bacterial infection in Drosophila melanogaster

1. Geographically distinct host populations often experience very different ecological conditions. These variable ecological conditions impact the strength of selection that these hosts experience from their parasites. 2. Numerous studies have characterized geographical patterns of resistance to infection among natural populations in the context of host-parasite local adaptation, but what other factors might contribute to these differences? 3. Here, we determined whether 20 naturally isolated populations of Drosophila melanogaster collected along the East Coast of the United States varied for survival after being inoculated with one of two species of bacteria--Lactococcus lactis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We then asked whether host environment accounted for the observed patterns of resistance. 4. Resistance to both types of infection varied spatially. The hosts' natural environment was predictive of the observed spatial variation in resistance to L. lactis, but not P. aeruginosa, infection. Specifically, hosts exposed to species-rich bacterial communities were more likely to survive the infection. 5. We conclude that biotic characteristics of the host environment, specifically the number of species of bacteria hosts encounter, shape host resistance to bacterial infection in nature. We discuss our results in the context of what is known about the evolutionary ecology of resistance in invertebrate systems.     

Adaptation of Drosophila to temperature: Heat-shock proteins and survival in Drosophila melanogaster

Two stocks of Drosophila melanogaster, one sensitive (6.5% survival) and one resistant (76.24%) to heat shock (40°C/25 min) were derived through indirect selection [1]. Genetic analysis of heat-sensitive and heat-resistant lines we had selected revealed that the survival rate is chiefly determined by cytoplasmic inheritance but also depends to some extent on the nucleus [1]. The ability of the fly to survive thermal stress was found to have an excellent correlation with the kinetics of protein synthesis in ovaries or glands subjected to heat treatment. The incorporation rate of ³⁵S-methionine into proteins was found to be higher for strains exhibiting higher survival (R₁, R₁S₁) than for strains with a lesser ability (S₁, S₁ R₁) to survive heat shock. Moreover, the intensity of labeling of the proteins synthesized and especially of the hsps (heat-shock proteins) after the heat shock is higher in the R₁ and R₁S₁ stocks than in the S₁ and S₁R₁ stocks. This convergence between survival and the cellular level of hsps (both manipulated by selection) bears on the physiological significance of these proteins which seems to participate in the control of the survival as an additive component.     

Rapid loss of stress resistance in Drosophila melanogaster under adaptation to laboratory culture

We investigate changes in resistance to desiccation and starvation during adaptation of Drosophila melanogaster to laboratory culture. We test the hypothesis that resistance to environmental stresses is lost under laboratory adaptation. For both traits, there was a rapid loss of resistance over a three-year period. The rapidity of the response suggested that mutation accumulation could not account for it. Rather, resistance to environmental stresses appeared to be lost as a correlated response to selection on another trait, such as early fertility, with which stress resistance is negatively genetically correlated. These results suggest that caution is needed when extrapolating from evolution of stress resistance in long-established laboratory stocks to patterns of responses and correlated responses in natural populations.     

黑腹果蝇的性别控制

性别的形成包括两个过程,即性别决定和性别分化。果蝇的性别控制研究包括性别决定、性别分化、性别鉴定、性别诱导和性别控制5个方面。性别决定是在两种不同发育途径之间的选择,它提供了一个研究基因调控的模式系统。果蝇的性别决定问题已经研究得相当详细［1］。性别分化是使胚胎向着雌性或雄性发育的过程,决定了性别表型。果蝇的性别分化也取得了不少研究成果。近年来,许多重要的性别调控基因已被克隆和鉴定。随着果蝇基因组全序列测定的完成,果蝇的性别控制研究将会更为深入而完善。本文对与黑腹果蝇性别决定和性别分化相关的一些问题进行综述。     

2014—2016年某院铜绿假单胞菌耐药性监测

摘要：目的 分析铜绿假单胞菌的分布和耐药性变化,为临床防治铜绿假单胞菌感染提供依据。方法 收集成都大学附属医院2014—2016年所分离的铜绿假单胞菌,采用VITEK 2-Compact全自动细菌鉴定系统进行鉴定和药敏试验,采用WHONET 5.6软件对数据进行分析。结果 3年间共分离出1 945株铜绿假单胞菌,多重耐药铜绿假单胞菌分离率为34.2%（666/1945）。标本来源以呼吸道为主,占82.2%（1598/1945）。科室分布以呼吸内科最多,ICU其次。铜绿假单胞菌对头孢曲松和头孢噻肟的耐药率最高,均＞57.0%;对阿米卡星耐药率最低,为2.0%。3年来铜绿假单胞菌对17种抗生素的耐药率呈整体上升的趋势。结论 铜绿假单胞菌对头孢曲松、头孢噻肟、亚胺培南耐药率较高,对阿米卡星耐药率较低。铜绿假单胞菌的耐药率呈整体上升的趋势,应重视细菌耐药性的监测,以延缓耐药性产生、促进临床合理用药。     

No apparent cost of evolved immune response in Drosophila melanogaster

Maintenance and deployment of the immune system are costly and are hence predicted to trade‐off with other resource‐demanding traits, such as reproduction. We subjected this longstanding idea to test using laboratory experimental evolution approach. In the present study, replicate populations of Drosophila melanogaster were subjected to three selection regimes—I (Infection with Pseudomonas entomophila), S (Sham‐infection with MgSO₄), and U (Unhandled Control). After 30 generations of selection flies from the I regime had evolved better survivorship upon infection with P. entomophila compared to flies from U and S regimes. However, contrary to expectations and previous reports, we did not find any evidence of trade‐offs between immunity and other life history related traits, such as longevity, fecundity, egg hatchability, or development time. After 45 generations of selection, the selection was relaxed for a set of populations. Even after 15 generations, the postinfection survivorship of populations under relaxed selection regime did not decline. We speculate that either there is a negligible cost to the evolved immune response or that trade‐offs occur on traits such as reproductive behavior or other immune mechanisms that we have not investigated in this study. Our research suggests that at least under certain conditions, life‐history trade‐offs might play little role in maintaining variation in immunity.     

环丙沙星耐药的铜绿假单胞菌药敏情况分析

目的了解对环丙沙星耐药的铜绿假单胞菌的药敏情况。方法细菌的鉴定及药敏试验,均采用法国生物梅里埃公司的VITEK2微生物鉴定与药敏系统,选择经VITEK2测定耐环丙沙星的铜绿假单胞菌(耐药株)68株及对环丙沙星敏感的铜绿假单胞菌(敏感株)67株,统计分析两者对亚胺培南、阿米卡星、庆大霉素、头孢他啶、哌拉西林和哌拉西林他唑巴坦等几种临床上常用抗生素的药敏情况。结果耐药株对以上6种抗生素的敏感率分别为亚胺培南706%,阿米卡星206%,庆大霉素191%,头孢他啶279%,哌拉西林632%,哌拉西林他唑巴坦721%。而敏感株对6种抗生素的敏感率则分别为925%、328%、687%、657%、881%与896%,明显高于耐药株,经χ2检验,除阿米卡星005相似文献   

铜绿假单胞菌的分布特点耐药性分析

目的分析3年来我院患者铜绿假单胞菌的耐药特点,为临床合理用药提供依据,并有助于医院感染预防与控制。方法对2010年至2012年我院各类感染患者标本中分离获得的铜绿假单胞菌,采用纸片扩散法（K-B法）检测抗菌药物的敏感性,并用WHONET5．3软件对药敏结果进行统计分析。结果3年分离的铜绿假单胞菌共计369株,其对多黏菌素B无耐药,对亚胺培南、美罗培南、头孢哌酮／舒巴坦、哌拉西彬他唑巴坦和阿米卡星的耐药率较低（6．81％～22．73％）,对其他抗菌药物的耐药率较高（32．47％～73．38％）。结论铜绿假单胞菌对多种抗菌药物均具有较高的耐药性,临床上治疗该菌感染时应根据药敏检测结果选择抗菌药物。     

Age-dependent behavior loss in adult Drosophila melanogaster

The use of Drosophila as an organism in which to study aging has been limited by the fact that few biomarkers of aging exist in the adult. In this paper we examine behavior loss relative to longevity in wild-type populations maintained at 22°C and 29°C to determine whether behavior loss—that is, loss of ability to perform certain innate behavioral responses within a defined test interval—can be used as biomarkers of aging. We find that under controlled conditions behavior loss can be used as a landmark of aging in populations maintained at either 22°C or 29°C. The ability to perform normal geotactic and phototactic responses is lost during the reproductive phase of the adult populations, whereas motor activity is not lost until well into the death phase. We feel that the use of behavior loss, together with other parameters of longevity in Drosophila, will allow comparisons to be made between different strains or between different environmental conditions to test their effect on aging. In the companion paper we demonstrate the use of behavior loss to identify a mutation which may accelerate the aging process.     

Quantitative genetics of learning ability and resistance to stress in Drosophila melanogaster

Even though laboratory evolution experiments have demonstrated genetic variation for learning ability, we know little about the underlying genetic architecture and genetic relationships with other ecologically relevant traits. With a full diallel cross among twelve inbred lines of Drosophila melanogaster originating from a natural population (0.75 < F < 0.93), we investigated the genetic architecture of olfactory learning ability and compared it to that for another behavioral trait (unconditional preference for odors), as well as three traits quantifying the ability to deal with environmental challenges: egg‐to‐adult survival and developmental rate on a low‐quality food, and resistance to a bacterial pathogen. Substantial additive genetic variation was detected for each trait, highlighting their potential to evolve. Genetic effects contributed more than nongenetic parental effects to variation in traits measured at the adult stage: learning, odorant perception, and resistance to infection. In contrast, the two traits quantifying larval tolerance to low‐quality food were more strongly affected by parental effects. We found no evidence for genetic correlations between traits, suggesting that these traits could evolve at least to some degree independently of one another. Finally, inbreeding adversely affected all traits.     

铜绿假单胞菌感染的非抗生素治疗研究进展

铜绿假单胞菌是引起多种人体感染的常见致病菌,目前主要采用抗生素治疗铜绿假单胞菌感染.由于铜绿假单胞菌能对多种抗生素产生抗性,导致传统的抗生素治疗面临非常大的挑战.因而铜绿假单胞菌感染的非抗生素治疗方法受到了广泛重视,并取得了可喜的研究进展.本文从抗原抗体免疫疗法、噬菌体疗法、抗毒力因子疗法三个方面就铜绿假单胞菌的非抗生...     

Complexity of the cold acclimation response in Drosophila melanogaster

Insects can increase their resistance to cold stress when they are exposed to non-lethal conditions prior to the stress; these plastic responses are normally described only in terms of immediate effects on mortality. Here we examine in Drosophila melanogaster the short- and longer-term effects of different conditions on several measures of cold resistance, but particularly chill coma recovery. Short-term exposure to sublethal temperature (cold hardening) did not decrease chill coma recovery times even though it decreased mortality. Exposure to 12 degrees C for 2 days (acclimation) decreased chill coma recovery times for a range of stressful temperatures when flies were cultured at 25 degrees C, but did not usually affect recovery times when flies were cultured at 19 degrees C. In contrast, 2-day exposure to 12 degrees C decreased mortality regardless of rearing temperature. Rearing at 19 degrees C decreased mortality and chill coma recovery time relative to rearing at 25 degrees C. Acclimation increased the eclosion rate of eggs from stressed females, but did not affect development time or size of the offspring. These results indicate that plastic responses to cold in D. melanogaster are complex when resistance is scored in different ways, and that effects can extend across generations.     

Simulation of gene pyramiding in Drosophila melanogaster

Gene pyramiding has been successfully practiced in plant breeding for developing new breeds or lines in which favorable genes from several different lines were integrated.But it has not been used in animal breeding,and some theoretical investigation and simulation analysis with respect to its strategies,feasibility and efficiency are needed before it can be implemented in animals.In this study,we used four different pure fines of Drosophila melanogaster,each of which is homozygous at a specific mutant gene with a visible effect on phenotype,to simulate the gene pyramiding process and analyze the duration and population size required in different pyramiding strategies.We finally got the ideal individuals,which are homozygous at the four target genes simultaneously.This study demonstrates that gene pyramiding is feasible in animal breeding and the interaction between genes may affect the final results.     

301株铜绿假单胞菌的分布及耐药性分析

目的 通过对临床中分离的铜绿假单胞菌的分布及对临床常用13种抗生素的耐药性进行分析指导临床合理用药.方法 收集大连医科大学附属第二医院2010年1月至12月临床送检的标本,采用全自动细菌和药敏分析仪分离铜绿假单胞菌同时进行药敏试验.结果 铜绿假单胞菌在痰液标本中分离率高达79.06％;对头孢噻肟、头孢西丁、头孢唑啉3种药物的耐药率均大于50％;对头孢他啶,哌拉西林/他唑巴坦耐药率低于20％.结论 铜绿假单胞菌易产生多源耐药,加强耐药性监测,控制医院内感染,对临床医生选用有效的抗生素具有十分重要的意义.     

Tissue-specific infection dynamics of male-killing and nonmale-killing spiroplasmas in Drosophila melanogaster

The male-killing spiroplasma strain NSRO causes an extremely female-biased sex ratio of the host, Drosophila melanogaster, as a result of selective death of male offspring during embryogenesis. The spiroplasma strain NSRO-A, a variant of NSRO, does not cause such symptoms. In an attempt to gain insights into the mechanism underlying the symbiont-induced reproductive phenotype, infection densities of the spiroplasmas in different tissues were monitored during host aging using a quantitative PCR technique. The density dynamics in the hemolymph were reminiscent of those in the whole body, whereas the density dynamics in the fat body, intestine and ovary were not. These results suggest that the majority of the spiroplasmas colonize and proliferate in the hemolymph of the host. In the hemolymph and whole body, the infection densities of NSRO were generally higher than those of NSRO-A, which may be related to the different reproductive phenotypes caused by the spiroplasmas.     

乙酸乙酯对果蝇(Drosophila melanogaster)的麻醉效应研究

麻醉是果蝇实验中最基本的操作,乙醚是最常用的麻醉剂。但因为乙醚是二类易制毒化学品而被国家控制使用。报道一种容易获得的试剂——乙酸乙酯对果蝇的麻醉效果。实验采用的麻醉室大小为125cm3,每处理20~30只果蝇,乙酸乙酯剂量为40、80、120μL,以同等剂量的乙醚为对照,每个实验重复4次,用所有果蝇完全麻醉后20min及120min时的未苏醒率为指标评估麻醉效果及安全性。结果表明:乙酸乙酯对果蝇具有麻醉作用;麻醉时乙酸乙酯开始起效应的时间略晚于同等剂量的乙醚,但使果蝇完全麻醉的时间却比同等剂量的乙醚略短或相接近;麻醉持续的时间则长于同等剂量的乙醚。乙酸乙酯麻醉的果蝇,90%以上的果蝇均在120min内苏醒,表明在这些剂量范围内是安全的。乙酸乙酯完全可以替代乙醚用于果蝇的麻醉。     

ICU患者铜绿假单胞菌获得性肺炎耐药研究

目的监测重症监护病房（ICU）铜绿假单胞菌（Pseudomonas aeruginosa,PA）的感染状况及耐药变迁,指导临床合理使用抗菌药物。方法对2003年至2007年间,我院ICU收治的患者下呼吸道分泌物进行培养及体外耐药试验。结果铜绿假单胞菌是ICU下呼吸道感染的主导致病菌且感染率呈逐年上升的趋势（46．3％-81．0％）,细菌对三代头孢、亚胺培南及氨基糖苷类药物的耐药性也呈逐年上升的趋势,并呈现多重耐药的特性。结论铜绿假单胞菌是ICU院内下呼吸道感染的常见病原菌,其多重耐药性及应引起高度重视。     

Simulation of gene pyramiding in Drosophila melanogaster

Gene pyramiding has been successfully practiced in plant breeding for developing new breeds or lines in which favorable genes from several different lines were integrated.But it has not been used in animal breeding,and some theoretical investigation and simulation analysis with respect to its strategies,feasibility and efficiency are needed before it can be implemented in animals.In this study,we used four different pure lines of Drosophila melanogaster,each of which is homozygous at a specific mutant gene ...