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Objective:To explore the clinical value of metagenomics next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in the diagnosis of urinary calculi with secondary infection.Methods:From September 2021 to May 2022, a total of 110 urinary calculi patients from the First People′s Hospital of Zhejiang Province Tonglu County were collected retrospectively, the urine sample of the patients with bacterial meningitis was measured by urine bacterial culture and mNGS respectively. Taking urine bacterial culture as the "gold standard", the sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and Kappa consistency of mNGS in the diagnosing of urinary calculi with secondary infection were analyzed. Results:The positive of urine bacterial culture were 35 cases and negative were 75 cases; while positive and negative were 39 cases and 71 cases in the mNGS detection. Taking urinary bacterial culture as the "gold standard", the specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value and Kappa consistency coefficient of mNGS in the diagnosis of secondary infection of urinary calculi were 89.3%, 88.6%, 79.5%, 94.4% and 0.756 respectively. Compared with urine bacterial culture, the Kappa consistency coefficients of three common pathogens detected by the mNGS of macrogenomics, included escherichia coli, klebsiella pneumoniae and enterococcus faecalis were 0.703, 0.735 and 0.769, respectively. Conclusions:mNGS can improve the detection rate of pathogens of secondary infection of urinary calculi, and has a high consistency with the detection results of urinary bacterial culture.
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Objective To study the expression and its clinical significance of Oct4 in prostate cancer.Methods The Oct4 mRNA expression levels in 2 normal prostate (NP) samples and 8 prostate cancer (Pca) samples were determined by reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) analysis.The Oct4 protein expression levels in 10 NP samples,10 benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) samples and 45 Pca samples were detected by immunohisochemical analysis.Results The relative expression levels of Oct4 mRNA were 0.91,0.76,0.66,0.63,0.55,0.50,0.48,0.42 in 8 Pca samples and 0 in 2 NP samples,respectively.The positive rates of Oct4 protein expression was higher in Pca tissues than in NP and BPH tissues (91.1％ vs.0.0％,91.1％ vs.0.0％,both P＜0.05).The level of Oct4 protein was increased with higher hostologic grade and clinical stage of prostate cancer.The strong positive rates of Oct4 expression were 72.7％ and 30.0％ in Pca tissues with and without lymph node metastasis respectively,and there was a significant difference in the strong positive rate between them (P＜0.05).Conclusions The Oct4 expression is closely related to the differentiation and invasion of tumor.Oct4 might be an important index for the prognosis of prostate cancer.