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Objective@#To investigate the epidemiological characteristics of foodborne disease outbreaks in Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province, from 2012 to 2022, so as to provide the evidence for improving the foodborne disease control strategy. @*Methods@#Foodborne disease outbreaks in Shaoxing City from 2012 to 2022 were collected from National Foodborne Disease Outbreak Monitoring System in China, including populations, places of outbreak, pathogenic factors and suspected foods. The temporal distribution, regional distribution, distribution of outbreak places and pathogenic factors of foodborne disease outbreaks were descriptively analyzed.@*Results@#A total of 89 foodborne disease outbreaks were reported in Shaoxing City from 2012 to 2022, covering totally 699 patients, with an average annual attack rate of 6.35%. The outbreak peaked during the period between June and October (73 outbreaks, 82.02%), and family was the predominant place of outbreak (41 outbreaks, 46.07%). There were 83 outbreaks with known pathogenic factors, including 51 outbreaks caused by microbial factors, with Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Salmonella and norovirus as predominant pathogens, and 29 outbreaks caused by fungi and their toxins, which were all poisonous mushrooms poisoning, resulting in 2 deaths. In addition, there were 3 outbreaks caused by chemical factors. @*Conclusions@#The outbreak of foodborne diseases predominantly occurred in summer and autumn in Shaoxing City from 2012 to 2022. Family was the predominant place of outbreak, and toxic mushroom poisoning was the most lethal pathogenic factor.
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@#The incidence of dry eye is increasing year by year, and it has become one of the most common ophthalmic diseases. The main symptoms of dry eye disease are dry, foreign body sensation, burning in eyes, itchy and viscous secretion. These discomforts affect the daily life, efficiency of work and study, mental health and physical function of patients with dry eye. Dry eye is a multifactorial disease of the ocular surface characterized by a loss of homeostasis of the tear film, and accompanied by ocular symptoms, in which tear film instability and hyperosmolarity, ocular surface inflammation and damage, and neurosensory abnormalities play etiological roles. Meanwhile, there are changes in the tissue structure and ocular surface microenvironment of the eyes of patients with dry eye. In view of the fact that dry eye is an important public health problem, which seriously affects people's visual quality and life quality, studying the pathophysiology of dry eye is of great significance for efficient diagnosis, more targeted treatment and reduction of adverse events. This paper reviewed the research progress in the pathophysiology of dry eye in recent years.
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Objective:To analyze the epidemiological characteristics, high risk factors and pathogenic factors of sepsis-related liver injury patients by collecting epidemiological data and the sequencing results.Methods:A total of 288 sepsis patients been admited to the Emergency Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of Air Force Military Medical University from January 1, 2018 to December 31,2019 were selected and divided into sepsis liver injury group ( n = 44) and sepsis without liver injury group ( n = 244) according to whether acute liver injury occurred or not. The differences ofthe general data, hematological parameters, severity of illness and other indicators at admission between the two groups were compared and analyzed. Logistic regression was used to analyze the risk factors of sepsis-related liver injury. Total of 8 septic patients with liver injury and 4 septic patients without liver injury were selected for RNA-sequencing. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) was extracted from peripheral blood mononuclear cell of patients, detected using RNA-seq, and differential genes were screened and analyzed. Results:Compared with the sepsis without liver injury group, patients in the liver injury group suffered less hypertension (11.4% vs. 30.3%) and relatively more chronic renal insufficiency (40.9% vs. 12.1%); more patients were admitted to the emergency department due to renal disease (43.2% vs. 24.6%), higher sequential organ failure score (SOFA) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation Ⅱ (APACHE Ⅱ) score (SOFA (points) 9.86 ± 3.59 vs. 5.41 ± 3.13, APACHE Ⅱ (points) (16.07 ± 4.41) vs. (14.46 ± 3.77), with prolonged hospital days (d): 8 (4.75, 13.75) vs. 6 (2, 9)]; in the liver injury group, the incidence of infection in respiratory and digestive systems (70.5% vs. 18.0%) andthe chance of infection with Staphylococcus aureus were higher (9.1% vs. 2.0%), and laboratory parameters (procalcitonin (PCT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), partial thromboplastin time (APTT), direct bilirubin (DBIL), aspartate aminotransferase (ALT), alanine aminotransferase (AST)) were significantly increased [PCT (μg/L) (23.90 ± 33.22) vs. (10.95 ± 20.18), LDH (U/L) 540.00 (370.50, 1177.00) vs. 168.00 (98.65, 875.18), APTT (s) (41.50 ± 3.13) vs. (36.23 ± 5.27), DBIL (μmol/L) 18.50 (10.10, 58.85) vs. 10.30 (7.60, 16.85), ALT (U/L) 67.00 (41.25, 164.00) vs. 29.00 (18.00, 51.25), AST (U/L), 101.00 (51.25, 174.75) vs. 35.00 (25.00, 65.50)], while platelet (PLT) and albumin (Alb) were significantly lower than those in the sepsis without liver injury group [PLT (× 10 9/L) 62.50 (38.50, 164.25) vs. 90.5 (66.25, 165.5), Alb (g/L) (30.17 ± 7.16) vs. (34.20 ± 6.50)] (all P < 0.05).Logistic regression analysis revealed that Staphylococcus aureus infection, thrombocytopenia, elevated procalcitonin, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, elevated total bilirubin, and elevated glutamyltransferase were associated with sepsis with acute liver injury (odds ratio, OR) with 95% confidence interval (95% CI) of 0.1167 (0.0380~0.7300), 0.9836 (1.0060~1.0290), 0.9986 (1.0000~1.0001), 0.9745 (1.0040~1.0170), 1.0020 (0.9940~1.0000), and 0.9931 (1.0000~1.0001), respectively. A total of 311 significantly differential expressed genes (DEGs) were selected, with 151 up-regulated genes and 160 down-regulated genes compared with the septic non-liver injury group. Further bioinformatics analysis reveled that the top 10 GO sequences are:①platelet α granules,② platelet α granule cavity,③wound healing,④cell migration,⑤multicellular organism process,⑥anatomical structure development,⑦cartilage ossification,⑧tissue development,⑨ keratinization,⑨Multicellular biological development. And KEGG pathway enrichment analysis revealed that human disease-related pathways were dominant, mainly including purine metabolism, AGE-RAGE signaling pathway, p53 signaling pathway, porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism, nitrogen metabolism, mineral nutrient absorption, protein processing in the endoplasmic reticulum, and FoXo signaling pathway. Conclusions:Staphylococcus aureus infection, thrombocytopenia, elevated procalcitonin, elevated lactate dehydrogenase, elevated total bilirubin, and elevated glutamyltransferase were independent risk factors for sepsis liver injury. Coagulation dysfunction, apoptosis, and metabolic level changes may be important mechanisms of sepsis-associated liver injury, which are related to purine metabolism, porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism and the expression of genes related to FoXo signaling pathway, Hippo signaling pathway, and p53 signaling pathway.
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ObjectiveTo analyze the epidemiological features of foodborne disease outbreaks in Shanghai and to find the risk factors. MethodsWe collected the data of foodborne disease outbreaks occurred in Shanghai between 2010 and 2020， analyzed the characteristics of outbreaks， including time and geographic distribution， pathogenic factors and possible reasons caused outbreaks. ResultsBetween 2010 and 2020， there were 108 foodborne disease outbreaks with 1 736 cases， 45 inpatient cases and 1 death. May to September was the epidemic period， with about 64.81% of the outbreak occurrence. 39.81% outbreaks occurred in Pudong， Songjiang and Chongming Districts. Most outbreaks occurred in small restaurants （25%） and most foodborne cases were in staff canteen outbreaks （27.53%）. The main possible reasons caused outbreaks were improper food storage （19.44%）， cross-contamination （14.81%） and improper cooking （12.04%）. The major pathogenic factor was biological， caused 75.92% outbreaks and 77.59% cases. Methanol poisoning caused 1 death. The main contaminated food caused outbreaks was meat （17.59%）， multiple food （12.04%） and aquatic products （11.11%）. ConclusionThe foodborne disease outbreaks in Shanghai caused inpatient cases and death. We should pay more attention to foodborne disease outbreaks and we can control the risk factors by strengthening supervision and carrying out health education to reduce foodborne disease outbreaks.
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Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous system. It is currently believed that PD is related to factors such as age, gender, family inheritance, gene mutation and environment. The pathogenesis of PD is complex and is related to dysfunction and loss of dopaminergic neurons, involving accumulation of α-synuclein, neuroinflammation, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction and excessive accumulation of neuromelanin. In many ways, various factors act both independently and through cross-promotion, resulting in an ongoing pattern of brain tissue damage and progressing PD pathology. This article reviews the recent research on the pathogenic factors and pathogenesis of PD and explores new ideas and potential targets for PD treatment and drug development.
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Objective] The treatment of pediatric asthma in remission period is summarized from the positive and negative aspects, in order to provide new ideas and methods for clinical treatment. [Methods] By consulting the related literatures on the traditional Chinese medicine treatment of children with asthma in remission phase, the paper mainly summarized the different physicians' understanding of pathogenesis and approaches to the treatment of pediatric asthma in remission stage. [Results]The treatment of physicians for pediatric asthma in remission phase can be divided into asthenia healthy qi and sthenia pathogenic factor syndrome.The treatment of healthy qi deficiency mainly includes treating lung,spleen,kidney seperately;curing lung-spleen,lung- kidney, spleen-kidney ;treating three viscera meanwhile.The therapy of pathogenic excess contains treating wind,phlegm,stasis respectively;curing phlegm-stasis. [Conclusion]The treatment of traditional Chinese medicine for pediatric asthma has a unique advantage in improving children's physique, reducing the frequency of asthma attacks, and improve children's life quality which has significant clinical effect.
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[Objective] This paper sums up professor Zhang Peiying's scholar thought and clinical experience in diagnosing and treating coronary heart dis-ease. [Methods] From the aspects of the pathological mechanism, and treatment based on syndrome differentiation of coronary heart disease, and the exam-ple of medical record, elaborate that the pathological mechanism is the deficiency of cardiac Yang.Yang deficiency may cause the devitalized chest Yang, which may enable the external pathogenic cold to invade the body.The retention of cold and the stagnation of Qi and blood wil hinder the chest Yang and the circulation of blood in the chest vessels,causing the occurrence of the disease.[Results] The pathological mechanism of coronary heart disease is the deficiency of cardiac Yang and excess of pathogenic factor .Its root belongs to deficiency while its branch belongs to excess. On this base, professor forms Zhang Peiying's treatment principle focusing on relieving both the secondary and primary symptoms, such as replenishing Yang-Qi,and warming up the heart yang and dispel ing cold ,removing blood stasis.Taking an example for the therapy to prove it.[Conclusions]Professor Zhang Peiying's scholar thought and clinical experience in diagnosing and treating coronary heart disease is effective and is trusted and welcomed by patients. His thought and clinical expe-rience are worth to extend and apply.
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Sepsis is a common complication after severe trauma and burn, and also one of the main causes of death. Recently, although some new progresses were seen in antibiotic therapy, the mortality of sepsis is still on the rise, and the death rate as a result of sepsis is higher than a total of that of prostate cancer, breast cancer and AIDS. Therefore, sepsis has obviously become one of the serious ailments threatening human health. The present paper introduced the international definition of sepsis, severe sepsis and septic shock, the current researches on diagnosis and therapy, and proposed that we should not only pay attention to pathogenesis and treatment, but also to sepsis prevention in sepsis researches, and we should try to find out the breakthrough in the interaction and dynamic balance between human being and pathogenic factors. Researches on the strategies to revert strong toxicity of infectious agents to non-toxic or weak pathogenic factors, and to conduct further research concerning biological characteristics of microorganisms and mechanism of drug resistance in order to render them to lose the drug resistance ability, or to increase its sensitivity to the drugs. The above suggested approaches might form the future strategies for preventing and controlling sepsis.
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The etiology in Basic of TCM was six exopathogens (wind, cold, summer heat, wet, dryness, and fire),seven emotions, blood stasis, phlegm retention, improper diet, exhaustion, infectious damp heat, trauma and bitten by animal and insect. Through years of observation, we found that some diseases could not be explained by such etiologies and thus put forward some new etiologies, including pollution poison gas, drugs, chemicals and radiation. These new etiologies had some significance in improving TCM theories and guiding clinical practice.
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Objective To find out the relativity of diseases and emotional factors,provide foundation for the clinical epidemiologic survey,and to know about the doctors understanding of emotional etiology.Method Consulting to the diagnostic criterion of emotional diseases,whole-team-delamination method was adopted to research 54 703 registered case history of retrospective etiology in hospitals(Established Hospital of Shandong Province,Jinan City Central Hospital,TCM Hospital of Shandong Province) within 3 years.Result The cases that was related to emotions were totally 506,0.92% of all the cases.Of all the positive cases,62.5% of them were cardicvascular diseases,12.06% were digestive diseases,3.56% were gynecologic diseases.Of all the emotional etiology,agitation was 43.87%,anger was 25.69%.Female patients took up 56.72% of all the positive cases.Conclusion Cardiovascular diseases are more related to negative emotions,the basic emotion"anger"is more related to diseases,female is prior to male patients,age is of positive correlation of the occurrence of emotional diseases.
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The concept of cause in TCM is different from the etiology concept in modern TCM. In modern TCM,the etiology is equal to pathogenic factors.At present,the significance of 'pathogenic factors'in TCM was affected by modern TCM,and this description can't show the essence of TCM theory and is not conducive to the development of cause theory of TCM.
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On inheriting the doctrines of Li Dong-yuan's'Internal damage of spleen and stomach causes diverse illnesses'and YE Gui's moistening stomach-yin etc.,Professor LU Zhi-zheng elaborates their academic thoughts further and proposes the core of spleen and stomach regulation in modern times——'cotrolling the center,operating four sides,keeping happy emotion,regulating ascending and descending,considering moistening and dryness,normalizing food and drink'.He does not only apply spleen and stomach to treat spleen and stomach illness but also treat vertigo,thoracic obstruction,cardialgia,apoplexy,liver and kidney diseases,rheumatosis and so on,which are all effective.However,as times,diets and living habits are changing,as well as social environment is different,the spleen and stomach diseases,which are caused by people's unhealthy diet,irregular work and rest,overworking and high spiritual pressure of work in this modern society with profound food and clothing and highly developed material civilization,has changed greatly from the spleen and stomach theory in Dongyuan times.In this case,Professor LU experiences that the reason for injured spleen and stomach in modern society has its unique pathogenic factor,thus sets up the etiology and pathogenesis for spleen and stomach of internal injury in the new times.
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This paper investigates an interrelationship between burnt needle therapy and King Injo's disease. From 1633 (Year 11 in King Injo's reign) to May 5, 16. (Year 27 King in Injo's reign), right before his death, King Injo was treated with burnt needles by Yi Hyeongik, an acupuncturist when the king had health problems. This study arises from two questions: why was King Injo often treated with burnt needles? and what effect did burnt needles have? Burnt needle therapy is a combined form of acupuncture and moxibustion. Yi Hyeongik was famous for eradicating pathogenic factors. He was appointed as a doctor in the Royal Hospital. The medical definition for pathogenic factors is that they are disease-causing factors. Understanding the pathogenic factor for King Injo's disease could make it possible to find the interrelationship between burnt needles and the king's disease. In the Joseon era, the prevalent belief about diseases was that diseases could be caused by homeopathic magic. Some people thought homeopathic magic caused King Injo's disease. The actual reasons for King Injo's disease were the participation in the excessive rites of Queen Mother Inmok's funeral and the constant oppression from the Ching Dynasty after disgraceful defeat in the war. When King Injo started to be sick, homeopathic magic cases were found in the royal palace. The king's incurable disease was believed to have happened as a result of homeopathic magic. King Injo's suspicion toward Princess Jeongmyeong derived from her mother, Queen Mother Inmok. Moral justification for King Injo's coup was Gwanghaegun or Prince Gwanghae's immoral conduct toward Queen Mother Inmok. After he was installed, King Injo obeyed the Queen Mother and showed her every attention. Meanwhile, he treated Princess Jeongmyeong with respect, maximized the moral justification for the coup, and solidified the royal authority. However, constant rebellions and treasons threatened King Injo. The king suspected that Queen Mother Inmok and Princess Jeongmyeong were involved in homeopathic magic cases because both figures could affect major rebellions and treasons. Homeopathic magic is a kind of ideological belief and psychological suspicion. Accordingly, burnt needle therapy could have an actual effect on treating the diseases of the body. It could have a psychological effect in treating pathogenic factors as well. As burnt needles were often used for the king's disease, remarkable development of acupuncture and moxibustion during the King Injos era was a characteristic in the history of medical science in the Joseon Dynasty.
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@#ObjectiveIn order to confirm the relationship of pathogenic factors and clinical manifestation of cerebral palsy. Methods185 children were divided into the prematurity group(91 cases) and maturity group(94 cases). The μ-test was applied to analyze the incidence of clinical manifestation of 185 children with cerebral palsy for different pathogenic factors. ResultsThe sever symptoms occurred more frequently in prematurity group than in maturity group. ConclusionThe earlier the careful follow-up for children with prematurity was performed, the earlier the diagnosis and treatment of cerebral palsy were achiened.
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26 heterotrophic bacteria strains were isolated from grown abalone digestion guts and their fanning waters in Jiansheng Abalone Farm in Shangwei, Guangdong province. Analyses of extra-cellular pathogenic factors were performed and API 20 E strips were employed to identify all the isolates. Results indicated that isolates from digestion guts displayed greater ability of producing protease , amylase, gelatinase and/or hemolysis than those from farming waters, while their ability of producing lipase and phospholipase were lower than the later. Regardless of their source of origins, there were some isolates which had great abilities of producing extra-cellular products and most of them were Sphingomonas paucimobilis. Therefore, Sphingomonas paucimobilis should be considered as an opportunistic pathogen in the abalone fanning environments, while the digestion guts and fanning waters should be both regarded as the sources of harboring potential pathogens. In addition, apart from predominant strains, the roles of extra-cellular products of the bacteria community as a whole should be taken into consideration when dealing with fish diseases.