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Iris lactea Pall. has high ornamental value and strong drought resistance, which can be used as a useful sand-stabilization and ornamental plant. In September 2021, typical anthracnose symptoms on I. lactea were found in the campus of Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University (125°10'45.31"E, 46°35'36.88"N), Daqing, China. Disease incidence varied from 37 to 51% at four survey sites (~20 m2 per site) of approximately 1,000 plants. Initially brown lesions with a yellow halo, and gray in the center were observed on the leaves. As disease progressed, the lesions expanded rapidly, resulting in dieback. To identify the pathogen, symptomatic tissues were excised from four infected leaves of four individual plants, surface sterilized for 1 min in 75% ethanol, washed twice with sterile water, plated on potato dextrose agar (PDA) contain 0.5 g/L streptomycin sulfate, and incubated at 25â for 3 to 4 days under dark conditions. Four morphologically similar fungal isolates (Irs-1 to -4) were obtained by using a single-spore isolation. After growth on PDA for 17 days at 25â, a circular like zonation colonies with a color of greyish to gray green were observed. On the reverse side, circular like with zig-zag zonation colonies light brown to light black from the margin to the center. Conidiophores were pale brown, septate. Conidia were hyaline, aseptate, curved or slightly curved, round, or somewhat acute apex, base truncate, unicellular, whose sizes ranged at 18.5 ± 2.3 × 4.6 ± 0.7 µm (n = 170), with length/width ratio 4.04. Appressoria were in oval, star, or irregular shape, with brown color with sizes approximately at 13.3 ± 2.1 × 10.4 ± 2.1 µm (n = 30). These morphological characteristics are consistent with Colletotrichum spaethianum with curved conidia (Damm et al. 2009). For molecular identification, primers ITS1/ITS4 (Schoch et al. 2012), GDF1/GDR1 (Guerber et al. 2003), ACT-512F/ACT-783R and CHS-354R/CHS-79F (Carbone and Kohn 1999) were used to amplify the partial region of rDNA-ITS, a 200-bp intron of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH), a partial sequence of the actin (ACT), and chitin synthase 1 (CHS-1) from fresh mycelia of the four isolates (Irs-1 to -4), respectively. The sequences were submitted to GenBank (ITS: OM004553, OP804624, OR029392, and OR029391; GAPDH: OP883938, OP883939, OR060963, and OR060962; ACT: OP883940, OP883941, OR060965, and OR060964; CHS: OP868844, OP868845, OR046504, and OR046503). Phylogenetic analysis based on the ITS, GAPDH, ACT and CHS gene sequences indicated that isolates obtained in this study were all clustered with C. spaethianum. Pathogenicity test was conducted by inoculating mycelial plugs on the I. lactea seedlings (2 seedlings with 4 to 5 leaves per isolate). Two seedlings inoculated with sterilized PDA plugs were used as control. All inoculated plants were maintained in humid chamber at 25â under dark, and typical anthracnose symptoms were observed up to 6 days after inoculation, while the control leaves were asymptomatic. The same pathogen was successfully re-isolated and phenotypically identical to the original isolates to fulfill Koch's postulates. C. spaethianum has been described on Hemerocalis flava (Vieira and Michereff 2014) and Allium fistulosum (Santana et al. 2016) in Brazil, Polygonatum cyrtonema in China (Ma et al. 2020), Iris germanica in Japan (Sato et al. 2012). To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. spaethianum causing anthracnose disease on I. lactea in Daqing, China.
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BACKGROUND@#Studies have shown that the incidence and severity of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in patients with lung cancer are higher than those in healthy people. At present, the main anti-tumor treatments for lung cancer include surgery, immunotherapy, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy and anti-angiogenesis therapy. While the effects of different anti-tumor treatments on the occurrence and severity of COVID-19 pneumonia are not uniform. Therefore, we aimed to describe clinical characteristics and antitumor therapy of patients with lung cancer and COVID-19 pneumonia, and examined risk factors for severity in this population.@*METHODS@#From December 1, 2022 to February 15, 2023, a retrospective study was conducted in 217 patients diagnosed with COVID-19 and pathologically confirmed lung cancer in the Jinling Hospital. We collected data about patients' clinical features, antitumor treatment regimen within 6 months, and the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19. Risk factors for occurrence and severity of COVID-19 pneumonia were identified by univariable and multivariable Logistic regression models.@*RESULTS@#(1) Among the 217 patients included, 51 (23.5%) developed COVID-19 pneumonia, of which 42 (82.4%) were classified as medium and 9 (17.6%) were classified as severe; (2) Univariate and multivariate analysis revealed overweight (OR=2.405, 95%CI: 1.095-5.286) and intrapulmonary focal radiotherapy (OR=2.977, 95%CI: 1.071-8.274) are risk factors for increasing occurrence of COVID-19 pneumonia, while other therapies are not; (3) Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) history (OR=7.600, 95%CI: 1.430-40.387) was more likely to develop severe pneumonia and anti-tumor therapies such as intrapulmonary focal radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy did not increase severity.@*CONCLUSIONS@#Intrapulmonary focal radiation therapy within 6 months increased the incidence of COVID-19 pneumonia, but did not increase the severity. However, there was no safety concern for chemotherapy, targeted therapy, surgery and immunotherapy.
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Humanos , COVID-19 , Estudos Retrospectivos , Neoplasias Pulmonares/tratamento farmacológico , Incidência , Pneumonia/etiologiaRESUMO
Objective:To investigate the clinical and imaging features of bilateral Wallerian degeneration of the middle cerebellar peduncles secondary to isolated pontine infarction.Methods:Patients diagnosed as bilateral Wallerian degeneration of cerebellar middle peduncle after isolated pontine infarction admitted to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from June 2017 to December 2021 were retrospectively included. Patients with bilateral Wallerian degeneration of cerebellar middle peduncle after isolated pontine infarction reported between January 2001 and December 2021 were collected by searching Chinese and English databases, and their clinical and imaging characteristics were summarized.Results:A total of 48 patients with bilateral Wallerian degeneration of cerebellar middle peduncle after isolated pontine infarction were included, including 14 patients admitted to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, and 34 patients collected by searching the Chinese and English databases. Thirty-three patients were males (68.75%) and 15 were females (31.25%). Their age was 65.8±10.7 years old (range, 37-88 years). Most patients had vascular risk factors, and hypertension was the most common. Dysarthria and limb weakness were the main clinical symptoms at admission. The infarct sites of all 48 patients were located in the blood supply area of paramedian pontine arteries, of which 37 (77.08%) were unilateral (18 on the left and 19 on the right), 6 (12.50%) were bilateral sides, and 5 (10.42%) had incomplete data. When Wallerian degeneration was diagnosed, 8 patients (16.67%) had dizziness or ataxia, 6 (12.50%) had aggravated original symptoms, and the remaining 34 (70.83%) had no new symptoms or aggravated original symptoms. All patients showed symmetrical abnormal signals in bilateral middle cerebellar peduncles, with obvious hyperintensity on T 2 or diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI). One patient showed T 2 hyperintensity in bilateral middle cerebellar peduncle on the next day after the onset of the infarction, which was the earliest case to find secondary Wallerian degeneration after isolated pontine infarction. Conclusions:Wallerian degeneration should be considered when symmetrical lesions of bilateral middle cerebellar peduncles occur after isolated pontine infarction. Wallerian degeneration may occur early after isolated pontine infarction. Most cases have no new symptoms or aggravated original symptoms. Conventional MRI can identify it early.
