Dan Bai Xiao Formula combined with glucocorticoids and cyclophosphamide for pediatric lupus nephritis: A pilot prospective study.

Background: Patients with lupus nephritis (LN) typically undergo long-term treatment with glucocorticoids (GCs) and immunosuppressants. There is a growing demand for optimal therapy with better remission results and fewer side effects. Sustained traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) might be quite valuable for multitarget therapy, reducing the total dosage of GCs and minimizing the side effects of immunosuppressants.

Analysis of the Clinical Characteristics and Follow-up Study of Children with Cutaneous Polyarteritis Nodosa.

Objective: This study aims to analyze the clinical characteristics, treatment and prognosis of children with cutaneous polyarteritis nodosa (CPAN), in order to improve the understanding of this disease.

Methods: Data of 14 children with CPAN, who were hospitalized in the Beijing Children's Hospital of Capital Medical University from January 2006 to December 2016, were collected. The clinical characteristics of all patients were summarized, the antistreptolysin-O (ASO)-positive and ASO-negative groups were compared, and the follow-up results were analyzed.

[Investigation and genetic identification on Babesia infection in rodents in some areas of Fujian Province].

Objective: To explore the status of Babesia infection in rodents and the genetic characteristics of Babesia spp. in Fujian Province.

Methods: Rodents were captured by the night trapping method in Shaowu, Qingliu, Shunchang, Yong’an, Changle and Youxi during 2014-2015.

The effect of temperature on the extrinsic incubation period and infection rate of dengue virus serotype 2 infection in Aedes albopictus.

Dengue fever is an acute mosquito-borne viral disease caused by dengue virus (DENV). Temperature may affect the efficiency of the mosquito vectors in spreading DENV. Aedes albopictus mosquitoes were infected orally with a DENV2 suspension and incubated at different temperatures.

[Treatment of children with EB virus infection by Chinese medicine: a clinical study].

Objective: To provide evidence for Chinese medical treatment of children with EB virus infection by exploring its clinical efficacy from multiple angles.

Methods: Totally 81 children patients were randomly assigned to the treatment group (46 cases) and the control group (35 cases). Patients in the treatment group took Chinese medical decoction, while those in the control received intravenous dripping of Ganciclovir and oral administration of pidotimod.

[Clinical characteristics of juvenile dermatomyositis complicated with interstitial lung disease].

Objective: To explore the clinical and laboratory features and the prognosis of juvenile dermatomyositis (JDM) complicated with interstitial lung disease (ILD).

Method: Data of 39 cases of JDM complicated with ILD hospitalized in Beijing Children's Hospital from January 2005 to December 2011 were collected. The clinical features, laboratory data and prognosis of these children were analyzed.

[Effect of herbs in early intervention of children with Henoch-Schonlein purpura nephritis].

Objective: To observe the effect of blood activating and cooling, stasis removing herbs on the occurrence rate of Henoch-Schonlein purpura nephritis (HSPN).

Methods: The 141 HSP children patients with bleeding of the blood stasis syndrome and of the blood heat syndrome (having normal results of urine routines) were assigned to the blood activating and stasis removing group and the blood cooling and arresting group. They were treated with blood activating and stasis removing herbs and blood cooling and arresting herbs respectively for eight weeks.

Current state of clinical diagnosis and treatment of infantile cytomegaloviral hepatitis.

Cytomegaloviral hepatitis is an infantile liver disease commonly encountered in China, which could be differentiated into 4 patterns with different clinical conditions. Along with the progress of laboratory diagnostic techniques, multiple diagnostic approaches are available for this disease, but accurate diagnosis can only be made when individual patients' realities are taken into consideration. Clinical treatments are various, and the Western medicine used is mainly anti-viral agents such as Ganciclovir, and so far no unified therapeutic program has been formed.

Clinically controlled study on children's infectious mononucleosis treated by Chinese medicine.

Objective: To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of Chinese drugs for the treatment of children's infectious mononucleosis (CIM).

Methods: Sixty CIM patients were assigned into the treated group and the control group, patients in the treated group were administered with Chinese herbal decoction, and those in the control group were treated with intravenous dripping of ganciclovir 10 mg/kg per day, for a treatment course of 14 days.

Results: The total effective rate was 96.

[DNA amplification of Plasmodium vivax parasites from Giemsa-stained blood smears].

Objective: To develop methods of extracting DNA from malaria parasites on Giemsa-stained blood smears.

Methods: Improved Na2HPO4 method and Chelex-100 ion-exchange technique were used to extract DNA from Giemsa-stained or unstained blood smears. Nested PCR was employed for amplification and identification of allelotype in the Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein-1 (PvMSP-1).