We presented a case of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis (CMC) due to STAT1 GOF mutation with recurrent enteritis and intestinal obstruction. A 33-year-old woman complained of recurrent oral erosion and finger (toe) nails damage for over 30 years. Candida albicans were cultured from the oral mucosa and nails.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe interaction of Mesomycoplasma (Mycoplasma) ovipneumoniae (M. ovipneumoniae) with host cells is a pivotal step in the infection process, underlining the necessity to develop vaccines and therapeutic approaches targeting the pathogen's key invasion mechanisms. The bacterium's capacity for adherence, invasion, and subsequent evasion of the host immune response underpins its pathogenicity, rendering adherence genes feasible vaccine targets.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRiemerella anatipestifer is a pathogenic bacterium that causes duck serositis and meningitis, leading to significant harm to the duck industry. To escape from the host immune system, the meningitis-causing bacteria must survive and multiply in the bloodstream, relying on specific virulence factors such as capsules. Therefore, it is essential to study the genes involved in capsule biosynthesis in R.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDExD/H-box helicases are crucial regulators of RNA metabolism and antiviral innate immune responses; however, their role in bacteria-induced inflammation remains unclear. Here, we report that DDX5 interacts with METTL3 and METTL14 to form an m6A writing complex, which adds N6-methyladenosine to transcripts of toll-like receptor (TLR) 2 and TLR4, promoting their decay via YTHDF2-mediated RNA degradation, resulting in reduced expression of TLR2/4. Upon bacterial infection, DDX5 is recruited to Hrd1 at the endoplasmic reticulum in an MyD88-dependent manner and is degraded by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFsubsp. (Mccp) is the cause of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia (CCPP) in goats. Inactivated vaccines and capsular polysaccharide (CPS) indirect hemagglutination reagents are available for prevention and serological detection, but high culture costs and complex antigen quantification have been plagued by production staff.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBacterial meningitis is a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Despite advances in antimicrobial chemotherapy, the disease remains detrimental to humans, livestock, and poultry. Riemerella anatipestifer is a gram-negative bacterium causing duckling serositis and meningitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResistance-nodulation-division (RND) efflux systems are ubiquitous in Gram-negative bacteria and play a predominant role in antimicrobial resistance and other diverse phenotypes, but the knowledges of RND efflux systems are poorly understood so far in Riemerella anatipestifer. According to the sequence annotation, RIA_1117-RIA_1118-RIA_1119 operon in RA-GD strain encodes a putative tripartite RND efflux system. RIA_1117, RIA_1118 and RIA_1119 genes encode an outer member protein (OMP), an inner membrane pump protein (pump transporter), and a periplasmic membrane fusion protein (MFP), respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To test the validity and reliability of the Chinese version of Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire (MPIQ) in college students.
Methods: We assessed the degree of phone dependence using the MPIQ among 2122 college students. One month later, 60 students were randomly selected for assessment with the MPIQ, and the ROC curve was generated to evaluate the true positive rate (sensitivity) and false positive rate at different cutoff values to determine the optimal cutoff score of the MPIQ.
Background: Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) belongs to the Flaviviridae family and the pestivius virus group. BVDV is responsible for significant economic loss in cattle industry worldwide because of reducing reproductive performance, increasing incidence of other diseases and mortality among young stock. The core (C) protein of the Flaviviridae family member is involved in host antiviral immune response through activation of related signaling pathways that affect the viral replication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRiemerella anatipestifer is a Gram-negative bacterium, which is an important pathogen infecting ducks and resistant to various antibiotics. The efflux pump is an important resistance mechanism of Gram-negative bacteria, but little research has been done in R. anatipestifer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the association of mobile phone use with sleep disorder and unhealthy eating behavior among college students of a medical university in Guangzhou.
Methods: Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire (MPIQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire Revised 21 Item (TFEQ-R21) were used to survey 2122 undergraduates of the medical university. One-sample t test, One-way ANOVA and multiple linear regression analysis were used to analyze the data.
Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) is a poultry pathogen with a reported distribution throughout the world. Vaccination is utilized as an important component of MS control programs for MS infection. The aim of this study was to evaluate protection efficacy of an inactivated MS vaccine (MS bacterin) with different adjuvants in broilers against a Chinese field isolate (CHN-BZJ2-2015).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe aim of this study was to determinate the prevalence of in retail foods and its resistance to quinolones in retail foods in Lanzhou, People's Republic of China. In this work, 2,182 food samples, collected from March 2015 to December 2018, were analyzed to detect and then analyzed for serotype distribution, quinolone resistance, and quinolone-resistant gene detection. The findings demonstrate that the overall prevalence of in these food categories was low.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe number of multidrug-resistant strains of continues to increase, and new strategies for the treatment of associated infections are necessary. Recently, numerous studies have shown that efflux pumps (EPs) play key roles in universal bacterial mechanisms that contribute to antibiotic resistance. In addition, studies have shown that the effects of antibiotics that are subjected to efflux can be reinforced by their combined use with efflux pump inhibitors (EPIs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRiemerella anatipestifer (R. anatipestifer) is a Gram-negative bacterium that crosses the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and causes meningitis with neurological symptoms in infected ducks. A threshold level of bacteremia must be reached before the BBB can be breached.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, we report the complete genome sequence of bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV) JT02L, which has been used in our laboratory, in mainland China, for more than a decade. The genome is 14941 nucleotide (nt), comprising a leader sequence of 50 nt, nucleoprotein (N) gene of 1328 nt, phosphoprotein (P) gene of 858 nt, matrix protein (M) gene of 691 nt, glycoprotein (G) gene of 1897 nt, non-structural glycoprotein (G) gene of 1785 nt, α1α2 gene of 638 nt, β gene of 460 nt, γ gene of 400 nt, large multi-functional enzyme (L) gene of 6470 nt and a trailer sequence of 73 nt. Individual genes are separated by intergenic regions (IGRs) of 26, 44, 47, 51, 37, 39, 68 and -21 nt respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBovine ephemeral fever (BEF) is caused by the arthropod-borne bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV), which is classified in the family Rhabdoviridae and the genus Ephemerovirus. A debilitating and sometimes fatal viral disease, BEF affects cattle and water buffalo. The epizootiology of BEF among cattle in China has not been fully determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a pestivirus which infects both domestic animals and wildlife species worldwide. In China, cattle are often infected with BVDV of different genotypes, but there is very limited knowledge regarding BVDV infection in Chinese yaks and the genetic diversity of the virus. The objectives of this study were to detect viral infection in yaks in Qinghai, China and to determine the genotypes of BVDV based on analysis of the 5'untranslated region (5'UTR) and N-terminal protease (N(pro)) region.
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Chlamydophila abortus is an important amphixenosis which in a wide range of animals, associated with reproductive disorders in yaks. In order to assess the prevalence of this infection in yaks in Qinghai, China, a cross-sectional study was carried out, and a total of 674 serum samples were collected from June to October 2012 in six counties, and antibodies to C. abortus were examined by indirect hemagglutination (IHA) test.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, the interactions of classical swine fever virus (CSFV) C-strain and the virulent GSLZ strain with mouse bone marrow-derived immature dendritic cells (BM-imDCs) were investigated for the first time. Both the C-strain and the virulent GSLZ strain could effectively infect and replicate in mouse BM-imDCs. C-strain-infected BM-imDCs showed a greatly enhanced degree of maturation, and could effectively promote the expansion and proliferation of allogeneic naive T cells.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) was detected by RT-PCR in 105 out of 391 samples which were collected from five dairy farms in Ningxia, China during 2010-2011. Non-cytopathogenic BVDV was isolated from 13 samples and a 230-bp fragment of the 5'-untranslated region was amplified and sequenced. While the predominant subgenotypes were BVDV-1b and BVDV-1d, a potentially novel subgenotype was identified by phylogenetic analysis, which may have implications for vaccine development.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The glycoprotein (G) gene sequences of bovine ephemeral fever virus (BEFV) strains derived from mainland China have not been compared with those of the isolates from other countries or areas. Therefore, the G genes of four BEFV isolates obtained from mainland China were amplified and sequenced. A phylogenetic tree was constructed in order to compare and analyze the genetic relationships of the BEFV isolates derived from mainland China and different countries and areas.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFForty-eight prevalent strains of Riemerella anatipestifer (RA) isolated in China were tested for susceptibility to eighteen antibiotics and investigated for the frequencies and characteristics of integrons and gene cassettes. All isolates were resistant to between three and ten antimicrobial drugs. Forty-seven isolates contained class 1 integron (97.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChicks were inoculated with a live vector vaccine of avian chlamydial MOMP gene recombinant adenovirus to evaluate efficacy, safety and viability of the vaccine. Five batches of the recombinant adenovirus vaccines, which were prepared using the 22nd generation avian chlamydial MOMP gene recombinant adenovirus cultured in HEK293 cells, were used to vaccinate 7 days-old chicks negative for chlamydial antibody. The recombinant adenovirus vaccine was shown to be both safe and effective in inducing specific immunity in vaccinated chicks.
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