Development of a novel and highly efficient method of isolating bacteriophages from water.

Bacteriophages are widely used to the treatment of drug-resistant bacteria and the improvement of food safety through bacterial lysis. However, the limited investigations on bacteriophage restrict their further application. In this study, a novel and highly efficient method was developed for isolating bacteriophage from water based on the electropositive silica gel particles (ESPs) method.

The inequity of inpatient services in rural areas and the New-Type Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) in China: repeated cross sectional analysis.

Objective: The main aim of the New-type Rural Cooperative Medical System (NRCMS) put into effect in 2003 was to reduce financial barriers in accessing health care services among vulnerable populations. The aim of this study was to assess the association between NRCMS and income related inequality in hospital utilization among rural inhabitants in Jiangxi Province, China.

Methods: A multistage stratified random cluster sampling method was adopted to select 1838, 1879, and 1890 households as participants in 2003/2004, 2008 and 2014, respectively.

New cooperative medical financing policy and hospitalization in rural China: multi-stage cross-sectional surveys.

Background: In 2003 China began to implement the New-type rural Cooperative Medical System (NCMS). This provided enhanced funding for hospital-based medical services among farmers. We examined self-reported utilization data for evidence of changes following the new policy.

[Investigation on health workforce in county anti-schistosomiasis institutions of Jiangxi Province, 2010].

Objective: To understand and assess changes of health workforce in county anti-schistosomiasis institutions of Jiangxi Province, so as to provide the evidence for improving the health workforce construction.

Methods: The status of health workforce of county anti-schistosomiasis institutions was surveyed with self-designed questionnaire, and the results were compared with the baseline survey results in 2007.

Results: The total number of employees was 1 384 in 2010 with the decrease of 71 persons compared with that in 2007.

[Effects of rare earth compounds on human peripheral mononuclear cell telomerase and apoptosis].

Objective: To study the effects of rare earth exposure on human telomerase and apoptosis of human peripheral mononuclear cells (PBMNs).

Methods: Rare earth mine lot in Xunwu county, the biggest ion absorptive rare earth mine lot of China, was selected as the study site. Another village of Xunwu county, with comparable geological structure and social environment was selected as the control site.

[A case-control study on risk factors for advanced schistosomiasis japonica].

Objective: To investigate risk factors for the development of advanced schistosomiasis.

Methods: The case-control study was designed with a match of 1:1 and 1:2. Healthy persons and chronic schistosomiasis patients were used as control.

A study of the relationship between trace element Mo and gastric cancer.

AIM:To study the relationship between trace element Mo and gastric cancer.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Soil samples were collected according to its type in different areas of Jiangxi Province; available molybdenum content in soil was measured by catalytic polarography and rank correlation method was used to analyse correlation between the mean of soil available molybdenum and mortality rate of gastric cancer in each county and city in Jiangxi Province. Gastric cancer cases were selected from the authors' hospital, occiput hair was collected to measure its molybdenum content with an atomic absorption spectrograph and controls were selected from the same hospital for comparison.