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Objective@#To investigate the impact of intensified maintenance therapy on the prognosis of children and adolescents with advanced lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) .@*Methods@#Retrospective analysis on the treatment results of children and adolescents with stage Ⅲ and stage Ⅳ LBL who underwent BFM-NHL-90/-95 regimen without prophylactic radiotherapy. The intensified therapy group included the patients admitted from 1998 to 2005, while others were classified as the non-intensified therapy group. Patients in the intensified therapy group were intravenously treated with "etoposide phosphate plus cytrarabine" and high-dose methotrexate alternately per 2.5-3 months in addition to the oral chemotherapy with 6-mercaptopurine and methotrexate during the maintenance phase.@*Results@#A total of 187 LBL patients were enrolled. The rates of 5-year event free survival were (76.9 ± 5.8) % and (77.9 ± 4.3) % (χ2=0.249, P=0.617) respectively, in the intensified therapy (n=52) and the non-intensified therapy groups (n=135) , while the rates of 5-year overall survival of them were (78.8 ± 5.7) % and (79.8±4.1) % (χ2=0.353, P=0.552) , respectively. Stratified by stage, immunological type as well as risk stratification, the rates of long-term survival were similar between the two groups. During the maintenance phase, the rates of grade Ⅲ and Ⅳ myelosuppression in the intensified therapy and the non-intensified maintenance groups were 55.8% and 18.5%, respectively (χ2=25.363, P<0.05) .@*Conclusion@#Intensified maintenance therapy failed to improve the prognosis of patients with advanced LBL.
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To explore the impact of the history of infection by the influenza A virus subtype H1N1 on secondary infection by the influenza A virus subtype H9N2, pigs non-infected and pre-infected with H1N1 were inoculated with H9N2 in parallel to compare nasal shedding and seroconversion patterns. Unlike pigs without a background of H1N1 infection, nasal shedding was not detected in pigs pre-infected with H1N1. Both groups generated antibodies against H9N2. However, levels of H1N1 antibodies in pigs pre-infected with H1N1 increased quickly and dramatically after challenge with H9N2. Cross-reaction was not observed between H1N1 antibodies and H9N2 viruses. These findings suggest that circulation of the H1N1 virus might be a barrier to the introduction and transmission of the avian H9N2 virus, thereby delaying its adaptation in pigs.
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Animals , Antibodies, Viral , Allergy and Immunology , Cross Reactions , Immune Sera , Allergy and Immunology , Influenza A Virus, H1N1 Subtype , Allergy and Immunology , Physiology , Influenza A Virus, H9N2 Subtype , Allergy and Immunology , Orthomyxoviridae Infections , Blood , Allergy and Immunology , Species Specificity , Swine , Allergy and Immunology , VirologyABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE To type Staphylococcus epidermidis and analyze its polymorphism by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA(RAPD),and provide the method for analysis of homogeneity of S.epidermidis.METHODS Twenty one collected strains from ophthalmology ward were analyzed using random primer RAPD1 with RAPD.RESULTS On the basis of bands,difference of clinical strains was analyzed.Twenty one strians of S.epidermidis were divided into 5 patterns.Among them type Ⅰ taken 71 percent(15/21).CONCLUSIONS Typing of S.epidermidis by RAPD at molecular level is very rapid,easy and reliable.It can apply to track pathogens of the hospital and study epidemiology of the bacteria.
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Objective: To observe the role of Qudu medicinal granules (祛毒冲剂) on enterogenous endotoxemia . Methods: Sixty-one cases with enterogenous endotoxemia were randomly divided into two groups:Qudu medicinal granule group (n=30) that was treated with Qudu medicinal granules combined with western medicine, and smecta group which was treated with smecta and western medicine (n=31). Changes of symptoms and signs were observed before treatment and 1, 3, 7 days after treatment. Blood samples were collected in the morning to measure the white blood cell (WBC), plasma lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and tumor necrosis factor (TNF) levels. Results: Recovery speed of WBC count in Qudu medicinal granule group was faster than that of the smecta group, there was significant difference on the third day after treatment (P