Hospitalized children with COVID-19 infection during large outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron strain: a retrospective study in Chaozhou, Guangdong, China.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the clinical findings of hospitalized paediatric COVID-19 patients by the end of 2022.

Method: All confirmed children with COVID-19 infection admitted into Chaozhou Central Hospital during the COVID-19 outbreak from 19 December 2022 to 1 February 2023 were included. Detailed clinical data of those children were evaluated retrospectively.

UGT1A1*6 mutation associated with the occurrence and severity in infants with prolonged jaundice.

Background: This study aimed to investigate the influence of a variant of the gene on the occurrence and severity of prolonged jaundice in Chinese infants at term.

Methods: 175 infants with prolonged jaundice and 149 controls were used in this retrospective case-control study. The infants with prolonged jaundice were subdivided into the mild-medium and severe jaundice groups (TSB ≥ 342 µmol/L).

[Optical emission spectroscopy of MPCVD plasma].

The plasma of CH4/H2 was diagnosed with optical emission spectroscopy on a high-pressure microwave plasma apparatus at 2.45 GHz. The existing radicals in the plasma and the influence of the methane concentration on radical concentration and distribution were researched.