AS系列佐剂

AS01、AS02、AS03和AS04是由葛兰素史克公司研制的人用疫苗佐剂,属于AS(adjuvant system,AS)系列佐剂。AS01是一种包含单磷酸酰脂质A(3-O-desacyl-4'-monophosphoryl lipid A,MPL)和皂素QS-21的脂质体佐剂,已被用于疟疾疫苗。AS02是含有MPL和QS-21的水包油乳化剂。AS03是包含α-生育酚、角鲨烯、Tween 80的水包油乳化剂,已被用于流感疫苗。AS04是含MPL的铝佐剂,已被用于人乳头瘤病毒疫苗和乙型肝炎病毒疫苗。     

TEENAGERS AS PATIENTS

Adolescents tend to abandon the program of preventive and therapeutic medical care established for them in infancy by pediatrician and parents. Factors in this resistance were analyzed, and a teenage clinic was established. In review of experience over a four-year period, during which the number of appointments monthly rose from 20 to 300, it was noted that the needs of adolescents are related to their stage of development. In the teenage clinic the adolescent assumes an increasingly important role in communication between himself and the physician, with concurrent diminution of the parental role.Special goals of medical counseling of adolescents include strengthening of parent-adolescent relationships and adjustment of the teenager to school and community.The adolescent requests information about normal and abnormal growth and development (obesity, acne, sexual changes). Somatic abnormalities noted on physical examination were of three classes: (1) “Normal” deviations (male gynecomastia, adolescent striae, functional heart murmurs). (2) Medical problems usual to persons of any age. (3) Comparatively rare entities (lupus erythematosus disseminatus, Laurence-Moon-Biedel syndrome).     

链霉菌属菌株AS4.693和AS4.702的分类学研究

链霉菌属“Setae”种群原为北里孢菌属Kitasatosporia (Omura,1982)。1992年,Wellington根据16S rRNA序列分析结果将其并入链霉菌属,并建立“Setae”种群。通过对保藏的链霉菌AS 4.693、AS 4.702进行的形态学、细胞化学、分子遗传分类研究结果表明,它们与链霉菌属“Setae”种群中的典型种——西唐链霉菌Streptomyces setae(JCM3304’)具有相似性。它们的rDNA相似性高达100％,证明它们应归属于同一种群。AS.4.693定名为西唐链霉菌不规则新亚种Streptomyces setae subsp.irregularis nov.,AS 4.702定名为西唐链霉菌波曲弗氏新亚种Streptomyces setae subsp.flexuofradiae nov.。