Mutation analysis of the HBV reverse transcriptase in nucleos(t)ide-treated patients with chronic HBV infection / 中华实验和临床病毒学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To characterize genotypic resistance within HBV RT region in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) treatment.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Serum samples of 229 CHB patients with NA treatment were obtained. Full-length HBV RT sequences were amplified, sequenced and analyzed, on the following NA resistant (NAr) mutations belonging to different NAr pathways.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Among 229 HBV isolates, 14.41% (33/229) and 85.59% (196/229) were genotype B and C, respectively; and the patients with HBV genotype C may be more susceptible to develope resistant mutations than patients with HBV genotype B(chi2 = 2.95, P < 0.05). NAr mutations were detected in 63 CHB patients. Mutations were not found at rtI169, rtT184, rtA194 or rtS202. RtM204 mutations were detected at the highest frequency among 63 mutants (40/63, 63.49%) and found to display 11 combination mutation patterns, in which rtM204I were associated with rtL80I/V and rtL180M, and rtM204V were associated with rtL1l80M, respectively. Conclusions There are complicated mutation patterns in the HBV RT region for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients with nucleos(t)ide analogue (NA) treatment. RtM204V/I mutation was the highest.</p>

A exploration and study of the relationships of hand-foot-mouth disease (HFMD) and the climate / 中华实验和临床病毒学杂志

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore and study the relationships between the popularity of HFMD and the climate in Qinhuangdao city.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>HFMD cases were collected on a ten-day basis in 2009 in Qinhuangdao city. At the same time, the data about Qinhuangdao's ten-day average temperature and average humidity were provided by the Qinhuangdao Meteorological bureau. Then the collected data were analysed using the great data analysis function in the EXCELE software.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>The results showed that the disease of HFMD had a positive relationship with seasons. The cases of HFMD began to rise at the last ten days of March and rised dramatically at the middle ten days of April; In July, the cases of HFMD arrived at peak and then decline gradually. The cases of HFMD in October were quite similar to the cases of HFMD in March. Then in November, the cases of HFMD declined rapidly. All these evidences suggested that the peak seasons of HFMD were Spring and Summer.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The situations of HFMD had a significant positive relationship with the conditions of climate, such as high temperature and high humidity.</p>