儿科呼吸道疾病中肺炎支原体感染的结果分析

目的探讨儿科肺炎支原体（MP）感染特点,辅助临床医师早期诊断,合理用药。方法测定我院一年来2013例儿科呼吸道疾病患儿的肺炎支原体抗体（IgM）。结果2013例呼吸道感染患儿,检出肺炎支原体抗体（IgM）阳性者769例,占38.2%,769例阳性分别表现为肺炎369例（48%）,支气管炎238例（31%）,咽炎92例（12%）,哮喘70例（9%）。其中,肺炎组与各组相比较,具有统计学意义。MP IgM感染的检出率明显高于其他各组（P〈0.01）。结论MP感染是患儿不可忽视的病原体,检测患儿血清MP抗体能够及早诊断,指导治疗。     

冬季肺炎和哮喘急性加重患儿呼吸道微生物多样性

目的研究冬季肺炎和哮喘患儿呼吸道微生物的多样性。方法选择2017年11月至2018年1月在我院急诊科治疗的确诊为肺炎和哮喘急性加重的患儿159例,其中肺炎患儿102例,哮喘急性加重患儿57例。选择同时期在本院就诊的无呼吸道疾病患儿88例,设为对照组。检测患儿呼吸道微生物分布情况。结果肺炎和哮喘患儿呼吸道微生物多样性增加。肺炎患儿菌群丰度前3位的菌属分别是链球菌属、不动杆菌属、克雷伯菌属。哮喘患儿菌群丰度前3位的分别是嗜血杆菌属、莫拉氏菌属、葡萄球菌属。呼吸道病毒检测结果显示,肺炎患儿检出率前3位的病毒分别是肺炎支原体、呼吸道合胞病毒和副流感病毒3型。哮喘患儿病毒检出率前3位的是柯萨奇病毒、呼吸道合胞病毒和肺炎支原体。肺炎患儿肺炎支原体检出率明显高于哮喘患儿,柯萨奇病毒检出率明显低于哮喘患儿。结论冬季肺炎和哮喘患儿的临床表现和体征较为相似,但是病原微生物检出情况有所不同。病原微生物检出的差异性有助于正确诊断和鉴别儿童肺炎和哮喘。     

Processing is required for a fully functional protein P30 in Mycoplasma pneumoniae gliding and cytadherence

The cell wall-less prokaryote Mycoplasma pneumoniae causes bronchitis and atypical pneumonia in humans. Mycoplasma attachment to the host respiratory epithelium is required for colonization and mediated largely by a differentiated terminal organelle. P30 is an integral membrane protein located at the distal end of the terminal organelle. The P30 null mutant II-3 is unable to attach to host cells and nonmotile and has a branched cellular morphology compared to the wild type, indicating an important role for P30 in M. pneumoniae biology. P30 is predicted to have an N-terminal signal sequence, but the presence of such a motif has not been confirmed experimentally. In the current study we analyzed P30 derivatives having epitope tags engineered at various locations to demonstrate that posttranslational processing occurred in P30. Several potential cleavage sites predicted in silico were examined, and a processing-defective mutant was created to explore P30 maturation further. Our results suggested that signal peptide cleavage occurs between residues 52 and 53 to yield mature P30. The processing-defective mutant exhibited reduced gliding velocity and cytadherence, indicating that processing is required for fully functional maturation of P30. We speculate that P30 processing may trigger a conformational change in the extracellular domain or expose a binding site on the cytoplasmic domain to allow interaction with a binding partner as a part of functional maturation.     

肺炎支原体实验室检测方法研究进展

肺炎支原体(Mycoplosma pneumonia,MP)为人类非典型肺炎的病原体,是引起呼吸道感染的重要病原体。但是支原体肺炎与其他病原体感染的肺炎,在临床症状、影像学上并无特异性差别,且其对一般治疗肺炎、上呼吸道感染的药物有耐药性,因此肺炎支原体及时、准确的实验室检测对于支原体肺炎的诊断治疗显得尤为重要。目前MP的实验室检测方法不断推陈出新,但各种方法均有其优势与不足,临床可选择两种不同的方法同时检测。比如:血清学抗体的检测结合MP快速培养药敏的方法;血清学抗体的检测结合PCR的方法,不同方法相互补充为临床的早期诊断、治疗提供依据。而MP药敏试验的检测和耐药机制的研究对于临床用药方案的选择,减少耐药株的产生和流行具有重要意义。     

咽拭子快速培养在肺炎支原体感染中的临床应用价值

目的:探讨咽拭子快速培养在肺炎支原体感染中的临床应用价值。方法:收集2014年2月~2016年2月期间我院收治的呼吸道感染患儿220例,用肺炎支原体专用液体培养基进行肺炎支原体快速培养,用胶体金法检测肺炎支原体MP-Ig M。比较两种方法的阳性率。结果:咽拭子培养快速培养阳性率与血清MP-Ig M检测阳性率比较,差异无统计学意义(P0.05)。MP-Ig检测显示,≤1岁阳性率最低,其阳性率随年龄增加不断增高(P0.05)。肺炎支原体咽拭子培养显示,≤1岁阳性率最高,2~8岁最低(P0.05)。病程≤7 d患者肺炎支原体咽拭子培养阳性率(34.21%)显著高于肺炎支原体MP-Ig检测阳性率(14.04%)(P0.05)。病程7 d患者肺炎支原体咽拭子培养阳性率(11.32%)显著低于肺炎支原体MP-Ig检测阳性率(52.83%)(P0.05)。肺炎支原体咽拭子培养的灵敏度性以及特异性显著高于肺炎支原体MP-Ig检测,差异具有统计学意义(P0.05)。结论:咽拭子快速培养对肺炎支原体感染的早期诊断有一定临床应用价值,方法简单,无创伤,值得临床进一步研究和应用。     

Application of different methods in the diagnosis of respiratory mycoplasmosis

A complex of methods for the detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae and Mycoplasma hominis in children and adults with respiratory diseases (acute, chronic and obstructive bronchitis, pneumonia, recurring croup, bronchial asthma), as well as in children frequently having acute respiratory diseases, has been worked out and tested. Both infective agents are frequently detected in the above mentioned pathological processes as monoinfection or mixed infection. Mycoplasma antigens are capable of prolonged (up to 1 year) persistence in the patient body in spite of etiotropic therapy and the presence of specific antibodies. The method of the preliminary treatment of specimens for the polymerase chain reaction is proposed: the specimens are subjected to prolonged deproteinization, which makes it possible to detect M. pneumoniae in some cases of chronic infection when it cannot be detected by routine methods.     

Community-acquired pneumonia in adults.

Although the frequency of community-acquired pneumonia caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae continues to be high, studies show that Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Chlamydia pneumoniae, or Legionella pneumophila are the etiologic agents in 20% to 40% of community-acquired pneumonia in adults. The clinical presentation of pneumonia caused by these organisms may be indistinguishable from pneumonia due to S pneumoniae. Separation of cases of pneumonia due to S pneumoniae as typical and that caused by M pneumoniae, C pneumoniae, or L pneumophila as atypical is unwarranted and unhelpful in planning therapy. As many as 35% to 50% of patients do not have an etiologic agent identified. Community-acquired pneumonia can have high morbidity and mortality in patients who are older, have underlying lung disease, diabetes mellitus, or other comorbid conditions, or who have decreased immune function regardless of the specific etiologic agent. In choosing appropriate empiric antimicrobial therapy in hosts who are not immunocompromised, erythromycin and other macrolide antibiotics have the advantage of being effective against a wide range of pathogens likely to be encountered, including S pneumoniae, M pneumoniae, and L pneumophila, and of having some benefit against C pneumoniae. In other patients, the selection of antibiotic therapy can be based on age, clinical suspicion, epidemiologic data, and laboratory test results. Antimicrobial therapy can be directed at specific organisms when and if they are identified.     

肺炎支原体感染的研究进展

肺炎支原体是引起呼吸道感染的常见病原体之一。近年来,肺炎支原体感染的发病率呈逐年增长趋势。肺炎支原体是介于病毒和细菌之间的原核生物,传播途径是呼吸道飞沫或气溶胶。感染该疾病后主要表现为上呼吸道感染、鼻咽炎、支气管炎、肺炎及严重的肺外并发症,如免疫性溶血性贫血、脑膜脑炎、心肌炎、心包炎、肾炎,严重感染者甚至可导致死亡。肺炎支原体有很强的传染性,经常在儿童集居地及家庭成员中交叉感染,导致久治不愈。对支原体肺炎进行早期诊断不仅可以避免并发症的发生率,也可遏制其继续传播。本文就肺炎支原体感染的致病机制及检测方法的研究,探讨了其对于支原体肺炎的早期诊断和病程监测的意义,将研究现状及展望作一综述。     

儿童肺炎肺实变住院患儿支气管肺泡灌洗液病原分析

本研究分析肺炎肺实变患儿支气管肺泡灌洗液病原谱构成,旨在为临床经验性抗感染治疗提供指导。收集2019年1月-2020年1月复旦大学附属儿科医院纤维支气管镜室诊治的住院肺炎病例临床资料,其中肺实变的诊断基于影像学证据,依托国家儿童医学中心病原学检测平台,并参考感染传染科医生解读,本研究对肺炎伴肺实变患儿支气管肺泡灌洗液标本的病原学检测结果进行回顾性分析。结果显示,286例肺炎患儿的286份支气管肺泡灌洗液标本被纳入研究,平均年龄5.5(5.8±3.1)岁,其中195例(68.2%)存在肺炎伴肺实变。总病原体检出率为76.6%(219/286),肺实变和无肺实变肺炎患儿病原体检出率分别为77.9%(152/195)和73.6%(67/91),差异无统计学意义;检出的前5种病原体均为肺炎支原体、腺病毒、鼻病毒、呼吸道合胞病毒和副流感病毒3型。5周岁及以上患儿肺炎支原体检出率达最高77.0%(127/165),肺实变病例和无肺实变病例肺炎支原体检出率分别为67.2%(131/195)和61.5%(56/91),差异无统计学意义。本研究结果提示,肺炎支原体、腺病毒、鼻病毒、呼吸道合胞病毒和副流感病毒3型是导致本研究目标人群患病的主要病原体;病原体检出率高低与是否肺实变无关。     

Etiological structure of pneumonias in children and adults

The bacteriological study of sputa, nasopharyngeal smears and bronchial washings taken from pneumonia patients has shown that the leading etiological agent was Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated in the diagnostic titre (10(7) bacteria per ml) in 78.1% of the cases. Staphylococcus aureus, Haemophilus influenzae, enterobacteria and yeast-like fungi have been found to play an insignificant role in the etiology of acute pneumonia (2.5 +/- +/- 0.9%). The results of the serological diagnosis by means of the complement fixation test have revealed that, alongside S. pneumoniae, the following infective agents are of etiological importance in cases of acute pneumonia: respiratory viruses (more than 50%), Mycoplasma pneumonia (10%), Chlamydia psittaci (6.4%) and Legionella pneumophila (3.8%). The study has first revealed that, under the conditions of Alma-Ata, serotypes 19, 23, 8 and 4 prevail among circulating pneumococci. This study has also shown that the use of M. pneumoniae antibody erythrocyte diagnosticum enhances the detection rate of mycoplasma infections in pneumonia patients.     

实验室内树鼩爆发间质性肺炎的报告

在动物室内饲养的树鼩于2003年4月至8月爆发了一次间质性肺炎。疫情特征为患病动物呼吸窘迫,发病急,死亡率高,主要累及新生或幼年动物,红霉素类抗生素有显著的防治效果。病理检查见光镜下肺组织呈间质性肺炎改变,肺泡腔内无渗出。推测此次疫情的病原为肺炎支原体。     

Mycoplasmas in diseases of humans.

The roles of Mycoplasma pneumoniae, M. hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum in diseases of humans are currently under investigation. M. pneumoniae, which causes primary atypical pneumonia, is a well established pathogen of the respiratory tract. Complications of infection by this organism are also being recognized; they include disorders of the hematopoietic, cardiovascular, central nervous, musculoskeletal, cutaneous and gastrointestinal systems. The roles of the genital mycoplasmas M. hominis and U. urealyticum are controversial but may include infections of the genitourinary tract and in pregnancy as well as diseases of the newborn, such as neonatal pneumonia and meningitis. In this review atypical pneumonia due to M. pneumoniae is described and the role of mycoplasmas in other diseases is discussed.     

Viral and atypical bacterial detection in acute respiratory infection in children under five years

Background

Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children worldwide. This study aimed to determine the viral and atypical bacterial causes of different severities and clinical manifestations of ARI in preschool children from low-income families in North-East Brazil.

Methods

Clinical/demographic data and nasopharyngeal aspirates (NPA) were prospectively collected from children <5 years presenting with ARI over one year to a paediatric A&E department. Disease severity was grouped according to presence of lower respiratory tract signs, need for hospital admission and need for oxygen. Clinical manifestation of ARI was based on discharge diagnosis from hospital with four conditions predominating: bronchiolitis, pneumonia, episodic viral wheeze/asthma and upper respiratory tract infection. Multiplex PCR was used to detect 17 common respiratory viral and atypical bacterial pathogens in NPA.

Findings

407 children with a median age of eight months were recruited. Pathogens were detected in 85·5% samples with co-infection being particularly common (39·5%). Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV; 37%), Adenoviruses (AdV; 25%), Rhinoviruses (hRV; 19%), Bocavirus (hBoV; 19%), human Meta-pneumovirus (hMPV; 10%) and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (Mpp; 10%) were most prevalent. Detection and co-infection rates were similar in all severities and clinical manifestations of ARI apart from RSV, which was associated with more severe disease and specifically more severe cases of bronchiolitis, and Mpp, which was associated with more severe cases of pneumonia. Mpp was detected in 17% of children admitted to hospital with pneumonia.

Interpretation

This study underlines the importance of viral and atypical bacterial pathogens in ARI in pre-school children and highlights the complex epidemiology of these pathogens in this age group. Generally, viruses and atypical bacteria were detected in all severities and clinical manifestations of ARI but RSV and Mpp were associated with more severe cases of bronchiolitis and pneumonia respectively.     

Polymerase chain reaction as a sensitive and rapid method for specific detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in clinical samples

The fast diagnosis of Mycoplasma primary atypical pneumonia is impaired by the lack of routinely available culture methods for isolation of Mycoplasma pneumoniae from clinical specimens. Likewise, serological methods commonly used for diagnosis are insensitive and non-specific. In this study, we have established and applied the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique to detect M. pneumoniae DNA in clinical samples originating from the respiratory tract. The PCR results were compared with those from culture and serology tests. To standardize the detection of M. pneumoniae by PCR, we first used DNA from culture grown organisms and clinical samples seeded with M. pneumoniae. PCR amplification was performed with M. pneumoniae-specific primers to amplify 144, 153 and 631 bp DNA fragments by using primer pairs MP5-1/MP5-2, P1-178/P1-331 and P1-178/P1-809, respectively. The amplification of the 631 bp DNA fragment was found to be most sensitive for the detection of M. pneumoniae. Using the most sensitive PCR, a total of 47 respiratory specimens from patients suspected of community acquired pneumonia were tested. While none of the specimens were positive for M. pneumoniae in culture, 6 specimens gave positive results by PCR. In 4 out of the 5 PCR positive samples tested serologically, the results were supported by elevated levels of anti-mycoplasma IgG/IgM/IgA. Thus, these results suggest that PCR is the most sensitive method to detect M. pneumoniae in clinical specimens.     

社区获得性肺炎非典型病原体分布及其流行特征

目的 了解社区获得性肺炎(CAP)非典型病原体感染的分布情况及其流行特征.方法 收集确诊为社区获得性肺炎患者278例,间接免疫荧光法(IFA)检测人血清中呼吸道9种主要的非典型性病原体的IgM抗体.结果 病原体检测阳性者150例,总阳性率54.O％.单一病原体感染中,肺炎支原体(MP) 125例(45.0％)、呼吸道合胞病毒( RSV) 27例(9.7％)、腺病毒22例(7.9％)、副流感病毒1、2和3型19例(6.8％)、乙型流感病毒16例(5.8％)、嗜肺军团菌血清1型13例(4.7％)、肺炎衣原体2例(0.7％)和甲型流感病毒1例(0.4％).混合感染共63例(22.7％),其中61例(21.9％)为MP与其他病原体的混合感染,病毒感染以RSV最常见,共27例(9.7％).CAP患者患有基础疾病共139例(50％),其余为无基础疾病者.基础疾病中以循环疾病和呼吸疾病最常见,各占总CAP患者的15,1％和13.0％.所有受检者MP阳性率最高,达45％,其中未成年组3～18岁中MP阳性率高达60.2％,而成人组18 ～50岁中MP阳性率高达81.8％.CAP春季病原体阳性检出率为46.9％,冬季病原体阳性检出率为63.8％(x2=7.752,P＜0.05).结论 非典型性病原体(特别是MP)感染在CAP患者中比例较大,其流行与分布跟病原体种类、基础疾病、年龄、季节等有一定的关系.     

Early secreted antigenic target of 6-kDa of Mycobacterium tuberculosis promotes caspase-9/caspase-3-mediated apoptosis in macrophages

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry - Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) is the most common respiratory infection in young children and its incidence has increased worldwide. In this study, high...     

The landscape of extrapulmonary manifestations of human parainfluenza viruses: A systematic narrative review

Human parainfluenza virus (HPIV) infection is associated with every kind of respiratory tract illnesses, including the common cold, laryngotracheobronchitis (i.e. croup), tracheobronchitis, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia, in both children and adults. Although HPIVs are common respiratory pathogens, there are increasing reports about extrapulmonary manifestations of HPIVs infection. Each of the HPIVs could produce infection of other organs (central nervous system, heart, myocardium, etc.) in all age groups who are either immunocompetent or immunocompromised. This review aimed at summarizing the available data on clinical manifestations of HPIV infection outside the respiratory tract from 1961 to 2020. The findings support the possibility of extrapulmonary infections that were thought to be due to rare host genetic or immunologic defects in infected patients. These findings highlight the fact that extrapulmonary dissemination of HPIV can occur, but the association is not clearly demonstrated. Our data support the hypothesis that HPIV infection is one of the possible causes of these alterations and may even be the direct cause in some cases.     

Spontaneous bronchopneumonia in laboratory dogs infected with untyped Mycoplasma spp

Three Mycoplasma spp. were isolated from five colony bred laboratory dogs (Canis familiaris) obtained from a single vendor. Four of these animals were Beagles and one was a mongrel. Three displayed clinical signs of respiratory disease including dyspnea, chronic coughing and moist rales, while the other two dogs were observed during thoracic surgery to have macroscopic lesions suggestive of pneumonia. All five dogs were submitted for diagnostic necropsy during which they were cultured for bacteria and mycoplasma. Mycoplasma spp. having three distinct colonial forms were isolated from the lungs of each of the animals. These three isolates were sent to the National Cancer Institute Diagnostic Microbiology Laboratory and to the National Institutes of Health, NIAID, Mycoplasmology Laboratory. Neither laboratory could serotype these isolates against antisera to 73 Mycoplasma spp., including the common canine mycoplasmas, and nine Acholeplasma spp. Histologically, the bronchopneumonia was characterized by bronchiectasis, purulent bronchiolitis, bronchial and bronchiolar epithelial hyperplasia, chronic non-suppurative peribronchiolitis and perivasculitis, bronchiolitis obliterans, and acute to subacute purulent pneumonia. The similarity between the pathologic findings in these animals and those observed in respiratory mycoplasmosis of other species, e.g. the rat, suggests a causal relationship between the isolated mycoplasmas and the pulmonary disease observed in these dogs.     

Significance of Legionella pneumophila in human respiratory pathology

The etiological structure of acute pneumonia and acute respiratory diseases was studied with a view to establishing the proportion of L. pneumophila among other causative agents of such diseases. A total of 299 patients were examined over time. The etiological diagnosis based on the data of serological examination was made in 70.6% of the patients with acute pneumonia and in 65% of the patients with acute respiratory viral infections and influenza. In the etiology of pneumonia, the leading role was found to belong to influenza A (H3N2) and B viruses, as well as to adenovirus, while in the etiology of acute respiratory viral infections and influenza, to influenza B virus, adenovirus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae. The importance of L. pneumophila in the etiology of acute pneumonia and acute respiratory diseases was shown. The proportion of L. pneumophila proved to be, on the average, 9.9% in acute pneumonia and 9.8% in acute respiratory diseases. L. pneumophila occurred most frequently in mixed infections in combination with adenovirus and influenza B virus. Diseases of Legionella etiology were found to have a seasonal character, occurring mostly in winter and spring.