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Objective To explore the common pathogens distribution and the drug resistance pattern in vitro from cerebrospinal lfuid culture in children. Methods The results of cerebrospinal lfuid culture in hospitalized children from January 2007 to December 2014 were retrospectively analyzed. Bacteria identiifcation and antimicrobial susceptibility were assayed by Vitek system from Bio Mrieux Company. Some bacterial strains were tested by disk diffusion method. Results Cerebrospinal lfuid from 23099 patients were tested at least one time during research period. 671 strains of bacteria were isolated with positive rate of 2 . 9%, among which there were 579 strains of gram positive bacteria ( 86 . 3%) and 92 strains of gram negative bacteria ( 13 . 7%). The top ifve bacteria were coagulase negative Staphylococcus ( 399 strains, 58 . 9%), Micrococcus ( 37 strains, 5 . 5%), Streptococcus pneumoniae (34 strains, 5.1%), Escherichia coli (32 strains, 4.8%), and Enterococcus faecium (26 strains, 3.9%). The positive rates of cerebrospinal lfuid culture in 8 consecutive years showed a downward trend (χ2?=?10 . 410 , P=?0 . 001 ). The positive rates of coagulase negative Staphylococci showed annual decline trend (χ2?=?31 . 200 , P
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ObjectiveTo examine the clinical utility of four methods in diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis.Methods A total of 60 patients with tuberculous meningitis were included as study group and another 70 patients with non-tuberculous intracranial infection as control group. Four methods, including conventional acid fast stain,Myobacterium tuberculous culture in BACTEC MGIT 960, real-time lfuorescent quantitative polymerase chain reaction (FQ-PCR) and modiifed acid fast stain, were used to assay the cerebrospinal lfuid specimens for diagnosis of tuberculous meningitis.ResultsThe positive rate was 11.7% (7/60), 6.7% (4/60), 48.3% (29/60), and 61.7% (37/60), respectively in the study group as tested by the four methods. There was signiifcant difference between the four methods in the positive rate (P< 0.05). Modiifed acid fast stain was more sensitive than the other 3 methods in identifying tuberculous meningitis (P< 0.05). This method also could identify the intracellularM. tuberculosis. All the 8 samples from the 4 patients who were positive for culture ofM. tuberculosis were positive in the modiifed acid fast stain.Conclusions The modiifed acid fast staining method is simple, fast, signiifcantly more senstive in detection of the acid fastM. tuberculosis in CSF, either extracellular or intracellular. It is worthwhile to further investigate its usefulness in early diagnosis of tuberculosis meningitis.
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Objective To investigate the changes of the pulmonary surfactant protein-D (SP-D) in serum and cerebrospi-nal lfuid in children with viral encephalitis (VE). Methods The levels of SP-D in serum and cerebrospinal lfuid were detected by a double-antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and compared in thirty children with VE in acute and con-valescent phases and in 12 children without VE. Results The levels of SP-D in serum and cerebrospinal lfuid between groups of VE acute phase and convalescent phase and no VE were statistically signiifcant (F=103.58,118.15, all P<0.01). The levels of SP-D in serum and cerebrospinal lfuid in children with VE in acute phase and in convalescent phase were signiifcantly lower than children without VE (P<0.01). The levels of SP-D in serum and cerebrospinal lfuid in children with VE in convalescent phase were all signiifcantly higher than those in acute phase (P<0.01). In children with VE, the level of SP-D in cerebrospinal lfuid was weakly correlated negatively with the count of nucleated cells. Conclusions SP-D might be involved in the pathogenesis in VE. The detection of SP-D in serum and cerebrospinal lfuid has a certain value for diagnosis of VE.
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Objective: To explore the effect of lavage with artiifcial cerebrospinal lfuid on neural cell apoptosis and the extracellular regulated kinase (ERK) pathway atfer traumatic brain injury. Methods: A total of 192 SD rats were randomly divided into a sham group, a traumatic brain injury model group, a local artiifcial cerebrospinal lfuid group, and a local saline group. Each group was divided into 4 sub-groups by the sacriifced time at 6 h, 12 h, 1 d and 3 d atfer the operation. hTe phosphorylation of extracellular regulated kinase 2 (P-ERK2), TNF-α and cellular apoptosis were examined. Results: hTe levels of P-ERK2 protein and TNF-α protein, as well as the number of apoptotic cellsat each time point in the local artiifcial cerebrospinal lfuid group were lower than those in the model group or in the saline group (P<0.05). Conclusion: Lavage with artificial cerebrospinal fluid can reduce apoptosis of neural cells after brain injury through the ERK pathway.
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Objective To explore the levels of neuron-speciifc enolase (NSE) of the cerebrospinal lfuid (CSF) in children with convulsion. Methods Ninety children with convulsion were enrolled. According to the frequency of convulsion attack, the children were divided into brief convulsion group 51 cases and prolonged convulsion group 39 cases, further, based on the etiology, the children were divided into viral encephalitis (VE) group, idiopathic epilepsy (EP) group, and febrile convulsion (FS) group. CSF was collected within 24-48 h convulsion attack. Twenty-three children with elective surgery were selected as a control group. CSF was collected before surgery. The NSE level of CSF were measured by ELISA method and compared among groups. Results The NSE levels of CSF in prolonged convulsion group and brief convulsion group were signiifcantly higher than that in control group, while the NES levels of CSF in prolonged convulsion group were signiifcantly higher than that in brief convulsion group (all P0.05). Conclusions Convulsion contributed to higher NSE levers of CSF, especially in children with prolonged convulsion attack or with VE. The NSE level of CSF can be regarded as an early objective indicator of brain damage after convulsions.