Application value of Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling in dermatology / 中华男科学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore the clinical application value of Provider-Initiated HIV Testing and Counseling (PITC) by analyzing the positive rate of HIV tests for people in need of PITC and that of routine HIV tests.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>We retrospectively analyzed the demographic and epidemiologic data about the patients seeking PITC services or undergoing routine HIV tests in Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital between January and December 2013.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The positive rate of initial HIV screening was 1.98% in the PITC group and 0.24% in the routine test group, while that of confirmed HIV was 0. 40% in the former and 0.07% in the latter, both with statistically significant differences between the two groups (P < 0.01). The positive rate of HIV was markedly higher in males than in females, particularly in the PITC group.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>PITC has a high clinical value in HIV detection for targeted subjects and therefore deserves general application in dermatology.</p>

Identification of Puumala like viruses in China / 中华实验和临床病毒学杂志

<p><b>BACKGROUND</b>To confirm if Puumala like viruses exist in China.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>RNA was extracted from lungs of bank voles captured in the Northeast China, partial S segments genome of Puumala viruses were amplified and sequenced.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>926 bp cDNA of S segments of Puumala like virus was amplified and sequenced. The phylogenetic analysis revealed that the Puumala like viruses found in China were most close to that found in Far East region of Russia.</p><p><b>CONCLUSIONS</b>Puumala like virus does exist in Northeast China, and the nucleotides sequence of the viruses have high homolog to Puumala viruses found in Russia.</p>