IgM and IgG antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 virus are detected in subjects who have recovered from COVID-19; IgM antibodies persist in a 1/3 of infected subjects up to 12 months from the moment of the disease, while IgG antibodies are present in the vast majority of cases (97%; medium and high levels antibodies were registered in 85% of cases). By the 12th month, 40% of those who recovered still have a very high level of IgG antibodies to the S-protein (>500 BAU/ml). In the feces, urine, and blood serum of patients with long-term persistent IgM antibodies, no coronavirus antigens were detected.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInvasive pneumococcal disease remains one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In Russia, 13- valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) was introduced into the childhood immunization programme nationwide in 2014. As part of the Global Pneumococcal Sequencing Project (GPS), we used genome data to characterize 179 pneumococcal isolates collected from Russia in 2011-2018 to investigate the circulating pneumococcal strains using a standardized genomic definition of pneumococcal lineages (global pneumococcal sequence clusters, GPSCs), prevalent serotypes and antimicrobial resistance profiles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe regulation of oncogenes by microRNA is a focus of medical research. hsa-miR-203, hsa-mir-129, hsa-miR-34a, hsa-miR-34b and hsa-miR-34c are oncosuppressive microRNAs that mediate the antitumor activity of p53. We seek to evaluate the frequencies, co-occurrence and clinical significance of the methylation of the , , and genes in the tumor tissue of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pneumococcal disease outbreaks of vaccine preventable serotype 4 sequence type (ST)801 in shipyards have been reported in several countries. We aimed to use genomics to establish any international links between them.
Methods: Sequence data from ST801-related outbreak isolates from Norway (n = 17), Finland (n = 11) and Northern Ireland (n = 2) were combined with invasive pneumococcal disease surveillance from the respective countries, and ST801-related genomes from an international collection (n = 41 of > 40,000), totalling 106 genomes.
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) coordinates the Global Invasive Bacterial Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (IB-VPD) Surveillance Network to support vaccine introduction decisions and use. The network was established to strengthen surveillance and laboratory confirmation of meningitis caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis.
Methods: Sentinel hospitals report cases of children <5 years of age hospitalized for suspected meningitis.
The aim of the work - to establish the interconnection and interdependence of toll-like mediated pathogenetic mechanisms of urogenital infection in pregnant women from the position of epigenomics. Using discriminant analysis in 89 patients with urogenital infection in pregnant women for the first time was established a reliable evidence-based relationship and interdependence between mucosal immunity, the severity of the infectious process, clinical manifestations, symptoms of miscarriage in the background of simultaneous development of the infectious process and pregnancy. For urgent delivery (infection), urgent childbirth (infection and clinical manifestation) and premature birth, mucosal immunity determines the severity of anti-infective resistance (with increasing mucosal immunity oppression of infectious process and clinical manifestations is logged , and its decrease increases the severity of infection process and clinical manifestations); the inhibition of mucosal immunity prevails over its hyperreaction (inhibition of mucosal immunity is determined by the physiological immunodepression in response to the development of pregnancy, as well as in response to herpes virus infection when activated); the severity of the infectious process depends on the severity of clinical manifestations and symptoms of miscarriage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report about the muscular system and the serotonergic and FMRFamidergic components of the nervous system of the Bucephalidae trematode, Rhipidocotyle campanula, an intestinal parasite of the pike. We use immunocytochemical methods and confocal scanning laser microscopy (CLSM). The musculature is identified by histochemical staining with fluorescently labeled phalloidin.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdult specimens of the allocreadiid trematode Acrolichanus auriculatus (Wedl, 1858) were collected from Acipenser schrenckii Brandt from the River Amur and Amur Estuary, Acipenser ruthenus L. from the Rivers Irtysh and Oka (Asian and European parts of Russia, respectively), and Acipenser fulvescens Rafinesque from Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, USA, and used for phylogenetic analyses based on 28S rDNA sequence data. The results supported the monophyly of Acrolichanus populations from both continents and a clear separation of A.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Trematoda Opisthorchis felineus Rivolta, 1884 is the causative agent of dangerous parasite disease-opisthorchiasis, widespread in the Russian Federation. The details of the neuroanatomical localization of the serotoninergic and FMRFamidergic neurotransmitter elements as well as their functional roles remain not studied enough in both adult and larval forms of O. felineus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To characterize endometrial structural and functional state and receptivity in women with hysteromyoma (HM) and chronic endometritis (CE) in infertile couples.
Material And Methods: A total of 130 patients who had HM and/or CE in an infertile couple were examined. Group 1 included 64 women with HM and CE; Group 2 consisted of 24 patients with HM; group 3 comprised 42 patients with EC.
According to the World Health Organization, every year about 1 million cases of purulent bacterial meningitis (PBM) are registered in the world, of which 200 thousand cases end in death. Bacterial meningitis is polyethiologic, which makes the task of determining the pathogen the main in the organization of epidemiological surveillance, treatment regimens, planning of preventive and anti-epidemic measures. The quality of laboratory diagnostics has a key influence on this.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Perinatal mortality rate is an indicator that characterizes the quality of medical care, as well as the social and economic situation in the region.
Objective: to audit perinatal losses in large regional centers of the Russian Federation with a population of over 1 million inhabitants, such as Chelyabinsk and Novosibirsk.
Material And Methods: A comprehensive postmortem examination of 309 cases of perinatal losses in 2016 was made, which was supplemented with an assessment of preventability according to the Scandinavian-Baltic classification.
A comparative analysis of oncogene mutations shows that variations in their frequency, spectrum, and hot-spot locations depends on the type of tumor and the ethnic origin of the population studied. The current version of the IARC TP53 Mutation Database lacks information about the frequency and spectrum of TP53 mutations in patients with DLBCL in Russia. The aim of this study was to assess the frequency and functional significance of TP53 mutations in patients with DLBCL in Novosibirsk.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrequencies of polymorphisms of genes BRCA1 and TP53 in breast cancer (BC) patients with a BC family history and radiation history were assessed and compared in the Semey region of Kazakhstan. The study included 60 women directly irradiated by the activities of the Semipalatinsk test site with a calculated effective equivalent dose of 500 mSv and their first generation descendants (group BC+Her+Exp); 65 women with family BC and absence of radiological history - the effective equivalent dose due to anthropogenic sources not exceeding 50 mSv (group BC+Her-Exp). The comparison group consisted of 65 women patients with breast cancer without family and radiological history (BC-Her-Exp).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of the research was studying of leukocyte telomere length association with age, sex, risk factors for age-related diseases in Russian people of pre-retirement and retirement age. By quantitative real-time PCR method we studied the leukocyte telomere length in 398 men (56,3±7,2 years) and 365 women (56,6±7,1 years) selected from a population sample of 45-69 year-old residents of the Oktyabrsky and Kirovsky districts of Novosibirsk (9 400 people). The selection was formed in the course of work on the international project HAPIEE.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExisting evidence on the association of telomere length with life expectancy and the risk of various age related diseases is discordant. This inconsistency in the data may be due to methodological factors, e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFZh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol
June 2015
Aim: Characteristics of quantitative and qualitative composition of cultured microorganisms isolated from axilla skin of practically healthy individuals.
Materials And Methods: 77 practically healthy individuals aged 18 to 40 years were examined. Species identification of microorganisms was carried out byculture-morphologic, tinctorial and biochemical properties using time-of-flight mass spectrometer and rpoB gene amplification with subsequent direct sequencing.
Association of rs1042522, rs17878362 and rs1625895 markers with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma risk is not well studied. Large number of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma entities, as well as a small effect of each of the polymorphisms on the lymphomas risk, leads to the analyses of these markers in each of histological subtypes of lymphoma and to study the polymorphisms in the haplotype groups. The goal of this work was to analyze the frequency, haplotypes and linkage disequilibrium of rs1042522, rs1625895 and rs17878362 in the patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and in control group.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate endometrial receptivity in women with chronic endometritis (CE), by studying the nature of secretory transformations, the number of mature pinopodia in the surface epithelium, the expression of steroid hormone receptors and leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF).
Subjects And Methods: Endometrium morphology was analyzed in 76 patients with CE (a study group) and 20 gynecologically healthy women (a control group) who sought family planning advice and examined using the uniform scheme. Morphological examination of the endometrium obtained by Pipelle biopsy on days 7-8 after ovulation involved histological and immunohistochemical studies: the number of mature pinopidia and the expression of estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PR) were determined, by estimating the PR/ER ratio and the marker of LIF receptivity in the endometrial epithelium and stroma.