<b>Background</b><b>: </b>In India, tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem, and the advent of drug resistance TB (DR-TB) has worsened the situation. The Revised National TB Control ...<b>Background</b><b>: </b>In India, tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem, and the advent of drug resistance TB (DR-TB) has worsened the situation. The Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) has introduced universal drug susceptibility testing (UDST) for all diagnosed TB cases in 2018. We conducted this study to know the advantage of implementing UDST when compared to selective testing existent in 2017 on key diagnostic cascade parameters and to identify the challenges in the implementation of UDST. <b>Methods</b><b>: </b>The study was conducted in two districts of Karnataka, India during January 2017-December 2018. The quantitative part consisted of before-and-after design and the qualitative part consisted of descriptive design.<b> Results</b><b>: </b>In 2017 (during selective testing/“before” period) out of the 2440 TB patients, 80 (3%) were diagnosed with Isoniazid and Rifampicin resistance patients;in contrast in 2018 (during UDST/“after” period) of the 5129 TB patients 258 (5%) were diagnosed with Isoniazid and Rifampicin resistance. However, the proportion of eligible patients tested for rifampicin resistance during the “after” period was 60% when compared to 100% during the “before” period and median turnaround time for testing was also longer during the “after” period when compared to the “before” period (32.5 days vs 27.5 days). Major reasons for these two gaps were found to be difficulties in collecting sputum specimens and transportation. <b>Conclusion</b><b>: </b>The rollout of UDST has led to a three-fold increase in a number of DR-TB cases detected in the region. There is a need for the programme to increase the proportion tested for DST by increasing the laboratory capacity and address the challenges in sputum collection and transportation.展开更多
The volatile oil of Artemisia argyi was extracted by ultrasonic assisted extraction, and the extraction rate of volatile oil was 0.68%. Thevolatile oil of A. argyi was emulsified with 1% Tween-80, and drug susceptibil...The volatile oil of Artemisia argyi was extracted by ultrasonic assisted extraction, and the extraction rate of volatile oil was 0.68%. Thevolatile oil of A. argyi was emulsified with 1% Tween-80, and drug susceptibility test was conducted with avian Escherichia coli. The results showedthat the volatile oil of A. argyi had antibacterial effect against avian E. coli, and the minimal inhibitory concentration was 50 mg/mL. Taking sixcommon antibiotics as the control, drug susceptibility test was conducted with volatile oil of A. argyi. The results showed that 10 strains of E. coliwere sensitive to the volatile oil of A. argyi, three of which had different degrees of resistance and one had the tendency of resistance.展开更多
In order to isolate and identify the pathogenic bacteria causing dead chickens in a chicken farm in Qinhuangdao area, the liver, heart and other organs of dead chickens suspected of salmonella disease were collected a...In order to isolate and identify the pathogenic bacteria causing dead chickens in a chicken farm in Qinhuangdao area, the liver, heart and other organs of dead chickens suspected of salmonella disease were collected aseptically, and streaked on SS agar medium and chromagar medium. Transparent colonies were observed on SS agar medium, and purple and transparent colonies on CAS medium. The isolate was conducted purification, staining microscopy, biochemical tests, and 16 S rRNA sequence analysis, and the results showed that four strains of the isolated bacte-ria were salmonella. The 16 S rRNA sequence analysis of four strains of salmonella showed that the isolates shared more than 99% homology. Drug susceptibility test was performed using paper method, and the results showed that most of the strains were resistant to tilmicosin, cefradine and sul-famethoxazole, but were sensitive to ceftriaxone.展开更多
[Objective] The paper was to determine the pathogen causing fox pneumonia in a breeding factory in Changli County.[Method]Through autopsy, a dominant strain was isolated from the lung of dead foxes, which was then per...[Objective] The paper was to determine the pathogen causing fox pneumonia in a breeding factory in Changli County.[Method]Through autopsy, a dominant strain was isolated from the lung of dead foxes, which was then performed Gram staining, 16 S rRNA sequence analysis and biochemical identification.[Result] The strain was negative in Gram staining, and was identified as E. coli through 16 S rRNA sequence analysis and biochemical identification. Drug susceptibility test was conducted using 15 kinds of drug susceptibility papers. The E. coli was sensitive to florfenicol, enrofloxacin, ceftriaxone, norfloxacin;intermediately sensitive to amikacin, gentamicin;and strongly resistant to penicillin, ampicillin,cefradine, sulfamethoxazole, lincomycin, streptomycin and amoxicillin.[Conclusion] It is difficult to treat E. coli causing fox pneumonia with traditional antibiotics clinically.展开更多
Antimicrobial use in agriculture, livestock and human health has increased over the years leading to the increase in antimicrobial resistance that can also find its way to the aquatic environment. Rivers can act as re...Antimicrobial use in agriculture, livestock and human health has increased over the years leading to the increase in antimicrobial resistance that can also find its way to the aquatic environment. Rivers can act as reservoirs of highly resistant strains and facilitate the dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains to animals and humans using water. A total of 318 water samples were collected from six different sampling points along Athi River and E. coli isolates were subjected to Kirby-Bauer diffusion method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. The total mean coliform count of the sampled sites was 2.7 × 104 (cfu/mL). E. coli isolates were most resistant to ampicillin (63.8%) and most susceptible to gentamicin (99.4%). MDR strains (resistance to ≥3 classes of antibiotics) accounted for 65.4% of all the isolates. The site recorded to have human industrial and agricultural zone activities had strains that were significantly more resistant to ampicillin, cefoxitin, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (P ≤ 0.05) than isolates from the section of the river traversing virgin land and land with minimum human activities. This study indicates that E. coli strains isolated from Athi River were highly MDR and most resistant to some antimicrobial classes (ampicillin and cefoxitin) which constitute a potential risk to human and animal health.展开更多
Background Drug susceptibility assay is very important in tuberculosis therapy. Pyrazinamide is a first line antituberculosis drug and diagnosis of its resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) is d...Background Drug susceptibility assay is very important in tuberculosis therapy. Pyrazinamide is a first line antituberculosis drug and diagnosis of its resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) is difficult and time consuming by conventional methods. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the performance of the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay in the detection of pyrazinamide resistance in M. tuberculosis relative to the conventional Wayne assay and Lowenstein-Jensen (L J) proportion method. Methods M. tuberculosis clinical isolates (n=132) were tested by the MODS and the Wayne assay: the results were compared with those obtained by the LJ proportion method. Mutations in the gene were identified by direct sequencing of the pncA genes of all isolates in which pyrazinamide resistance was detected by any of the three methods. Results Compared to the LJ results, the sensitivity and specificity of the MODS assay were 97.8% and 96.5% respectively; the sensitivity and specificity of the Wayne assay were 87.0% and 97.7% respectively. Mutations in the pncA gene were found in 41 of 46 strains that were pyrazinamide resistant (3 tests), in 1 of the 4 strains (LJ only), in 42 of 48 strains (at least I test), but no mutations in 1 strain sensitive according to the MODS assay only. The MODS assay, Wayne assay and LJ proportion method provided results in a median time of 6, 7 and 26 days respectively. Conclusions MODS assay offers a rapid, simple and reliable method for the detection of pyrazinamide resistance in M. tuberculosis and is an optimal alternative method in resource limited countries.展开更多
为调查河北地区鸡源沙门菌及其血清型的流行及分布情况,并分析其的致病性,本研究于2018年~2021年在河北省7个地区34个养鸡场共收集631份发病鸡肛拭子和62份病料样品共计693份,分别接种普通琼脂培养基分离细菌并纯化后经革兰氏染色镜检;...为调查河北地区鸡源沙门菌及其血清型的流行及分布情况,并分析其的致病性,本研究于2018年~2021年在河北省7个地区34个养鸡场共收集631份发病鸡肛拭子和62份病料样品共计693份,分别接种普通琼脂培养基分离细菌并纯化后经革兰氏染色镜检;将分离菌分别接种不同的培养基培养,并对分离菌经生化及16S r RNA基因的PCR及测序鉴定,随机选择32条测序序列经NCBI的BLAST比对,并采用DNAStar软件分析该基因的同源性。采用玻片凝集法鉴定分离菌的血清群及血清型并统计各血清群与血清型在河北不同地区的分布。结果显示,从693份病料样品中共分离到238株沙门菌,除3株未定群外,其余分离菌分属于A、B、C、D、E、F 6个血清群,其中D群最多达69.7%(166/238);238株沙门菌分属于7个不同的血清型和未定型,依次为鸡白痢沙门菌(91/38.2%)、甲型副伤寒沙门菌(43/18.0%)、鸡伤寒沙门菌(40/16.8%)、肠炎沙门菌(39/16.4%)等。血清群与血清型分布的统计结果显示,除张家口地区流行A群血清群外,其余地区流行的血清群均为D群;张家口地区流行鸡白痢沙门菌;秦皇岛地区有14种血清型,其中甲型副伤寒沙门菌为其流行血清型;石家庄、承德、唐山流行的均为鸡白痢沙门菌,邢台及保定地区分别流行肠炎沙门菌与鸡伤寒沙门菌。通过K-B药敏纸片法检测238株分离菌对7类共22种药物的敏感性;采用PCR检测分离菌的相关耐药基因并采用SPSS26.0软件中的Fisher确切概率法分析分离菌耐药表型与耐药基因之间的相关性。选取12株不同血清型的分离菌以0.2 m L/只(3×108cfu/mL)感染雏鸡,分析各分离菌对雏鸡的致病性。药敏试验结果显示,对苯唑西林、红霉素、青霉素、甲氧苄啶、氨苄西林、四环素耐药的菌株分别占97.5(232/238)、89.1%(212/238)、78.6%(187/238)、74.8%(178/238)、74.4%(177/238)、64.3%(153/238),对其它药物耐药的菌株均在32%以下,但均对头孢类药物敏感;且分离菌多呈多重耐药性(58.4%,139/238),耐6重药物的菌株(32.8%,78/238)与耐5重药物的菌株(11.8%,28/238)最多。耐药基因检测结果显示,对β-内酰胺类、磺胺类、大环内酯类、四环素类、氨基糖苷类药物的耐药基因tem、erm(B)a、tetA、strA-B的检出率分别为100%(238/238)、75.2%(178/238)、71%(169/238)、65.6%(156/238)及31.9%(76/238)。未检测到喹诺酮类和醛胺醇类耐药基因。经分析,氨基糖苷类、四环素类、磺胺类、β-内酰胺类、大环内酯类药物的耐药表型与其耐药基因的符合率分别为94.7%、98.1%、99.4%、97.5%、79.9%,相关性均较强。致病性试验结果显示,12株分离菌均能致感染鸡出现不同的临床症状及肝脏和肠道的剖检病变,且能对鸡造成不同程度的死亡,其中以致鸡死亡10只(100%)、7只(87%)为主,并从死亡鸡的肝脏再次分离到相应细菌。上述结果表明,本研究从河北不同地区分离的238株沙门菌血清群与血清型众多,大多数沙门菌的耐药性较强且多呈多重耐药性,其携带的5类药物的耐药基因与其相对应的耐药表型均呈较强的相关性,且分离菌对雏鸡呈不同的致病性。本研究为河北地区鸡源沙门菌的流行病学调查及其感染的防治提供参考依据。展开更多
文摘<b>Background</b><b>: </b>In India, tuberculosis (TB) is a major public health problem, and the advent of drug resistance TB (DR-TB) has worsened the situation. The Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) has introduced universal drug susceptibility testing (UDST) for all diagnosed TB cases in 2018. We conducted this study to know the advantage of implementing UDST when compared to selective testing existent in 2017 on key diagnostic cascade parameters and to identify the challenges in the implementation of UDST. <b>Methods</b><b>: </b>The study was conducted in two districts of Karnataka, India during January 2017-December 2018. The quantitative part consisted of before-and-after design and the qualitative part consisted of descriptive design.<b> Results</b><b>: </b>In 2017 (during selective testing/“before” period) out of the 2440 TB patients, 80 (3%) were diagnosed with Isoniazid and Rifampicin resistance patients;in contrast in 2018 (during UDST/“after” period) of the 5129 TB patients 258 (5%) were diagnosed with Isoniazid and Rifampicin resistance. However, the proportion of eligible patients tested for rifampicin resistance during the “after” period was 60% when compared to 100% during the “before” period and median turnaround time for testing was also longer during the “after” period when compared to the “before” period (32.5 days vs 27.5 days). Major reasons for these two gaps were found to be difficulties in collecting sputum specimens and transportation. <b>Conclusion</b><b>: </b>The rollout of UDST has led to a three-fold increase in a number of DR-TB cases detected in the region. There is a need for the programme to increase the proportion tested for DST by increasing the laboratory capacity and address the challenges in sputum collection and transportation.
基金Supported by Scientific Research and Technology Development Program of Guangxi ProvinceConstruction of Science and Technology Service Platform in Hezhou Agricultural Science and Tech-nology Park(GKN 14258003)Scientific Research Project of Hezhou University(HZU-JS201617)
文摘The volatile oil of Artemisia argyi was extracted by ultrasonic assisted extraction, and the extraction rate of volatile oil was 0.68%. Thevolatile oil of A. argyi was emulsified with 1% Tween-80, and drug susceptibility test was conducted with avian Escherichia coli. The results showedthat the volatile oil of A. argyi had antibacterial effect against avian E. coli, and the minimal inhibitory concentration was 50 mg/mL. Taking sixcommon antibiotics as the control, drug susceptibility test was conducted with volatile oil of A. argyi. The results showed that 10 strains of E. coliwere sensitive to the volatile oil of A. argyi, three of which had different degrees of resistance and one had the tendency of resistance.
基金Supported by The Third Batch Giant Plan of Hebei Province(180416H)
文摘In order to isolate and identify the pathogenic bacteria causing dead chickens in a chicken farm in Qinhuangdao area, the liver, heart and other organs of dead chickens suspected of salmonella disease were collected aseptically, and streaked on SS agar medium and chromagar medium. Transparent colonies were observed on SS agar medium, and purple and transparent colonies on CAS medium. The isolate was conducted purification, staining microscopy, biochemical tests, and 16 S rRNA sequence analysis, and the results showed that four strains of the isolated bacte-ria were salmonella. The 16 S rRNA sequence analysis of four strains of salmonella showed that the isolates shared more than 99% homology. Drug susceptibility test was performed using paper method, and the results showed that most of the strains were resistant to tilmicosin, cefradine and sul-famethoxazole, but were sensitive to ceftriaxone.
基金Supported by Project of Hebei Department of Science and Technology(18246629G)Project of Shijiazhuang Science and Technology Bureau(171500953A)Project of Hebei Department of Education(ZD2017234)
文摘[Objective] The paper was to determine the pathogen causing fox pneumonia in a breeding factory in Changli County.[Method]Through autopsy, a dominant strain was isolated from the lung of dead foxes, which was then performed Gram staining, 16 S rRNA sequence analysis and biochemical identification.[Result] The strain was negative in Gram staining, and was identified as E. coli through 16 S rRNA sequence analysis and biochemical identification. Drug susceptibility test was conducted using 15 kinds of drug susceptibility papers. The E. coli was sensitive to florfenicol, enrofloxacin, ceftriaxone, norfloxacin;intermediately sensitive to amikacin, gentamicin;and strongly resistant to penicillin, ampicillin,cefradine, sulfamethoxazole, lincomycin, streptomycin and amoxicillin.[Conclusion] It is difficult to treat E. coli causing fox pneumonia with traditional antibiotics clinically.
文摘Antimicrobial use in agriculture, livestock and human health has increased over the years leading to the increase in antimicrobial resistance that can also find its way to the aquatic environment. Rivers can act as reservoirs of highly resistant strains and facilitate the dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) strains to animals and humans using water. A total of 318 water samples were collected from six different sampling points along Athi River and E. coli isolates were subjected to Kirby-Bauer diffusion method for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. The total mean coliform count of the sampled sites was 2.7 × 104 (cfu/mL). E. coli isolates were most resistant to ampicillin (63.8%) and most susceptible to gentamicin (99.4%). MDR strains (resistance to ≥3 classes of antibiotics) accounted for 65.4% of all the isolates. The site recorded to have human industrial and agricultural zone activities had strains that were significantly more resistant to ampicillin, cefoxitin, amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (P ≤ 0.05) than isolates from the section of the river traversing virgin land and land with minimum human activities. This study indicates that E. coli strains isolated from Athi River were highly MDR and most resistant to some antimicrobial classes (ampicillin and cefoxitin) which constitute a potential risk to human and animal health.
基金This study was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81060001 ) and the Foundation of Scientific & Technical Research Project of Jiangxi Province (No. 2009BSB11219).
文摘Background Drug susceptibility assay is very important in tuberculosis therapy. Pyrazinamide is a first line antituberculosis drug and diagnosis of its resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) is difficult and time consuming by conventional methods. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the performance of the microscopic observation drug susceptibility (MODS) assay in the detection of pyrazinamide resistance in M. tuberculosis relative to the conventional Wayne assay and Lowenstein-Jensen (L J) proportion method. Methods M. tuberculosis clinical isolates (n=132) were tested by the MODS and the Wayne assay: the results were compared with those obtained by the LJ proportion method. Mutations in the gene were identified by direct sequencing of the pncA genes of all isolates in which pyrazinamide resistance was detected by any of the three methods. Results Compared to the LJ results, the sensitivity and specificity of the MODS assay were 97.8% and 96.5% respectively; the sensitivity and specificity of the Wayne assay were 87.0% and 97.7% respectively. Mutations in the pncA gene were found in 41 of 46 strains that were pyrazinamide resistant (3 tests), in 1 of the 4 strains (LJ only), in 42 of 48 strains (at least I test), but no mutations in 1 strain sensitive according to the MODS assay only. The MODS assay, Wayne assay and LJ proportion method provided results in a median time of 6, 7 and 26 days respectively. Conclusions MODS assay offers a rapid, simple and reliable method for the detection of pyrazinamide resistance in M. tuberculosis and is an optimal alternative method in resource limited countries.
文摘为调查河北地区鸡源沙门菌及其血清型的流行及分布情况,并分析其的致病性,本研究于2018年~2021年在河北省7个地区34个养鸡场共收集631份发病鸡肛拭子和62份病料样品共计693份,分别接种普通琼脂培养基分离细菌并纯化后经革兰氏染色镜检;将分离菌分别接种不同的培养基培养,并对分离菌经生化及16S r RNA基因的PCR及测序鉴定,随机选择32条测序序列经NCBI的BLAST比对,并采用DNAStar软件分析该基因的同源性。采用玻片凝集法鉴定分离菌的血清群及血清型并统计各血清群与血清型在河北不同地区的分布。结果显示,从693份病料样品中共分离到238株沙门菌,除3株未定群外,其余分离菌分属于A、B、C、D、E、F 6个血清群,其中D群最多达69.7%(166/238);238株沙门菌分属于7个不同的血清型和未定型,依次为鸡白痢沙门菌(91/38.2%)、甲型副伤寒沙门菌(43/18.0%)、鸡伤寒沙门菌(40/16.8%)、肠炎沙门菌(39/16.4%)等。血清群与血清型分布的统计结果显示,除张家口地区流行A群血清群外,其余地区流行的血清群均为D群;张家口地区流行鸡白痢沙门菌;秦皇岛地区有14种血清型,其中甲型副伤寒沙门菌为其流行血清型;石家庄、承德、唐山流行的均为鸡白痢沙门菌,邢台及保定地区分别流行肠炎沙门菌与鸡伤寒沙门菌。通过K-B药敏纸片法检测238株分离菌对7类共22种药物的敏感性;采用PCR检测分离菌的相关耐药基因并采用SPSS26.0软件中的Fisher确切概率法分析分离菌耐药表型与耐药基因之间的相关性。选取12株不同血清型的分离菌以0.2 m L/只(3×108cfu/mL)感染雏鸡,分析各分离菌对雏鸡的致病性。药敏试验结果显示,对苯唑西林、红霉素、青霉素、甲氧苄啶、氨苄西林、四环素耐药的菌株分别占97.5(232/238)、89.1%(212/238)、78.6%(187/238)、74.8%(178/238)、74.4%(177/238)、64.3%(153/238),对其它药物耐药的菌株均在32%以下,但均对头孢类药物敏感;且分离菌多呈多重耐药性(58.4%,139/238),耐6重药物的菌株(32.8%,78/238)与耐5重药物的菌株(11.8%,28/238)最多。耐药基因检测结果显示,对β-内酰胺类、磺胺类、大环内酯类、四环素类、氨基糖苷类药物的耐药基因tem、erm(B)a、tetA、strA-B的检出率分别为100%(238/238)、75.2%(178/238)、71%(169/238)、65.6%(156/238)及31.9%(76/238)。未检测到喹诺酮类和醛胺醇类耐药基因。经分析,氨基糖苷类、四环素类、磺胺类、β-内酰胺类、大环内酯类药物的耐药表型与其耐药基因的符合率分别为94.7%、98.1%、99.4%、97.5%、79.9%,相关性均较强。致病性试验结果显示,12株分离菌均能致感染鸡出现不同的临床症状及肝脏和肠道的剖检病变,且能对鸡造成不同程度的死亡,其中以致鸡死亡10只(100%)、7只(87%)为主,并从死亡鸡的肝脏再次分离到相应细菌。上述结果表明,本研究从河北不同地区分离的238株沙门菌血清群与血清型众多,大多数沙门菌的耐药性较强且多呈多重耐药性,其携带的5类药物的耐药基因与其相对应的耐药表型均呈较强的相关性,且分离菌对雏鸡呈不同的致病性。本研究为河北地区鸡源沙门菌的流行病学调查及其感染的防治提供参考依据。