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Objective To investigate the molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in Yanbian area .Methods From March 2011 to June 2012 ,a total of 101 consecutive and non-duplicate strains of Staphylococcus aureus were collected from Yanbian Hospital .Genotypes of SCCmec ,spa,and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) were determined by PCR combined with DNA sequencing analysis .The pvl gene was detected by PCR .Results The most prevalent SCCmec type was type II (65 .0% ,39/60) ,followed by SCCmec type III (26 .7% ,16/60) .A total of 11 Spa types were identified for the MRSA strains ,including t2460 (55 .0% ,33/60) ,t030 (18 .3% ,11/60) ,t002 ,t324 ,and t632 (5 .0% ,3/60 each) .A total of 29 Spa types were identified for MSSA strains ,including t796 (14 .6% ,6/41) ,t309 (9 .8% ,4/41) ,and t126 (7 .3% ,3/41) . The pvl gene was identified in 5 stains .MRSA strains were classified into three types based on multilocus sequence typing (MLST) ,namely ST5 ,ST239 and ST72 .MLST-based MSSA types were more diverse ,including ST5 ,ST 25 ,ST 15 ,ST 59 ,ST 1 ,ST 7 ,ST 45 ,ST 22 ,and ST 188 .Conclusions ST5-MRSA-SCCmecII-t2460 and ST239-MRSA-SCCmecIII-t030 are the most prevalent MRSA clones in Yanbian area .Multiple prevalent MSSA clones are identified.
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Objective To investigate the clinical value of pancreatic amylase (P-AMY) in acute pancreatitis, and perform methodical evaluation on total amylase (α-AMY), P-AMY and lipase.Methods 126 cases of patients with acute pancreatitis, 105 cases of disease controls and 95 healthy controls were involced in the investigation. Hitachi7600 automatic biochemical analyzer was applying to measuring α-AMY, P-AMY and lipase. The upper limit of the reference range of the total amylase, pancreatic amylase and lipase was 216 U/L, 115 U/L and 200 U/L respectively in our laboratory.Results The sensitivity of total amylase, pancreatic amylase, and lipase for the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis was 73.1%, 88.5% and 92.3% respectively;and while the specificity was 70.5%、81.9% and 82.9% respectively. The diagnostic accuracy, determined as the area under the curve, was 0.795 for total amylase, 0.868 for pancreatic amylase, and 0.886 for lipase. There was a significant difference between the total amylase and pancreatic amylase (P=0.045), but no significant difference was found between the pancreatic amylase and lipase (P=0.613) by ROC curve.Conclusion Pancreatic amylase has a higher sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy than α-AMY in acute pancreatitis, and shows a similar diagnostic performance as lipase. Therefore, P-AMY and lipase should be measured in combination in the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis.