Publications by authors named "Xiao-Mei Xiang"
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- Acute-on-chronic liver disease (AoCLD) is a major cause of hospitalization in hepatology, prompting a study to better understand its characteristics for diagnosis and prognosis.
- A total of 3,375 patients were analyzed, highlighting that liver cirrhosis acute decompensation (LC-AD) is the most common type, with hepatitis B virus (HBV) being the leading cause of chronic liver disease.
- The study revealed high mortality rates associated with AoCLD subtypes, emphasizing that bacterial infections are significant precipitating factors and that timely medical intervention is crucial for improving patient outcomes.
A new species of , (Primulaceae), is described and illustrated from western Hunan, central China. The species is similar to in plant densely strigillose, leaves subglabrous adaxially, and flowers usually solitary in axils of upper leaves, but differs by the succulent leaves, the creeping or ascending stems 15-25 cm long, and the suborbicular to broadly elliptic corolla lobes. This new species is also supported by a molecular phylogenetic analysis of some species based on ITS sequence data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) is an infectious disease caused by enteroviruses that has a severely impair for those high incidence countries such as China.The current study aimed to investigate the epidemic pattern of HFMD by time and region in Northwestern China.
Methods: All reported HFMD cases from 2008 to 2015 were collected from local Disease Control and Prevention.
Seven species were reported as new records of Jiangxi province, which collected from Wugongshan region, including Huperzia kunmingensis(Lycopodiaceae), Hydrangea mangshanensis(Saxifragaceae), Itea glutinosa(Saxifragaceae), Stellaria monosperma var. japonica(Lycopodiaceae), Youngia pratti(Compositae), and Calanthe henryi(Orchidaceae), Collabium formosanum(Orchidaceae). Among these species, H.
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