一起幼儿园内空肠弯曲菌高感染情况的调查

作者报道了一起幼儿园内空肠弯曲菌高感染的传播。该幼儿园儿童空肠弯曲菌阳性率为23.0％(43/187)。腹泻病例空肠弯曲菌阳性率为18.6％(8/43),健康儿童带菌率为24.3％(35/144)。同期另一幼儿园健康儿童和门诊非腹泻患儿带菌率分别为11.3％(27/238)和7.5％(15/201),三者间差异显著(P<0.005)。通过流行病学调查及菌株的生物分型表明,传染源可能是两名患空肠弯曲菌肠炎的炊事员,他们与儿童的菌株为同一生物型。其传播可能是通过污染的食物或人与人接触而引起的。     

幽门弯曲菌感染快速诊断试剂盒的研制及临床应用

介绍两种幽门弯曲菌(CP)感染快速诊断试剂盒的制备,用其检测244例胃粘膜标本,同时与细菌培养及组织学检查结果比较。试剂盒1号、3号对诊断CP感染的敏感性分别为97％和91％,均无假阳性。CP数量、试剂盒中尿素浓度与试剂盒的反应时间呈负相关。用试剂盒3号检测在10min之内即可出结果。具有敏感性强,特异性高及简便、快速的优点,尤其适于在内镜室内使用。     

Ultrastructure of another spiral organism associated with human gastritis

Summary Campylobacter pylori may not be the only organism that causes active chronic gastritis in man. We report two cases of gastric infection with a spiral organism distinct fromC. pylori. The first patient is a 36-year-old female who presented with epigastric pain and abdominal colic present since childhood and who had 14 cats. Endoscopy was normal. The second patient kept two dogs. Histology of gastric mucosal biopsy specimens in both patients revealed active chronic gastritis, most severe in body mucosa. Giemsa stain revealed bacteria with four to eight spirals, 0.5 m in diameter and 3–7 m in length. The organisms had multiple sheathed flagella at the pole and smooth cell walls without axial filaments. The organisms resembled the gastric spirillum that has been seen in cats, dogs, and nonhuman primates. After antibacterial therapy with bismuth subsalicylate, amoxicillin, and metronidazole, the organisms disappeared in both patients and the gastritis healed.UnlikeC. pylori, this new spirillum prefers to colonize gastric mucosa containing parietal cells. Whereas this type of organism is a common commensal in other mammals, it appears to be associated with and a possible cause of gastritis in humans.     

Development of a real-time fluorescence resonance energy transfer PCR to identify the main pathogenic Campylobacter spp.

A simple real-time fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) PCR, targeting the gyrA gene outside the quinolone resistance-determining region, was developed to identify Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. These species were distinguished easily, as the corresponding melting points showed a difference of 15 degrees C. A second assay using the same biprobe and PCR conditions, but different PCR primers, was also developed to identify the less frequently encountered Campylobacter fetus. These assays were applied to 807 Campylobacter isolates from clinical specimens. Compared to phenotypic identification tests, the FRET assay yielded the same results for all except three of the isolates. Analysis by standard PCR and 16S rDNA sequencing demonstrated that two of these isolates were hippurate-negative C. jejuni strains, resulting in an erroneous phenotypic identification, while the third was an isolate of C. coli that contained a gyrA gene typical of C. jejuni, resulting in misidentification by the FRET assay. The FRET assay identified more isolates than standard PCR, which failed to yield amplification products with c. 10% of isolates. It was concluded that the FRET assays were rapid, reliable, reproducible and relatively cost-efficient, as they require only one biprobe and can be performed directly on boiled isolates.     

空肠弯曲菌HSP43诱导自身免疫机理──分子模拟和抗原优势

我们曾发现空肠弯曲菌４３ｋＤ热休克蛋白（ＨＳＰ４３）能诱导小鼠产生自身免疫应答，本文则进一步分析了这种诱导作用的机理。二株针对ＨＳＰ６０保守区序列的单克隆抗体ＩＩＨ９和ＭＬ－３０不但能结合人及小鼠细胞中ＨＳＰ６０家族成员，而且也能结合ＨＳＰ４３，表明ＨＳＰ４３、人及小鼠ＨＳＰ６０三者均属同一家族成员，具有序列上的高度同源性。小鼠用空肠弯曲菌免疫后出现了针对１０种菌体蛋白的抗体，其中最早被诱导的抗体是针对ＨＳＰ４３的，并且该种抗体在随后８０ｄ观察期间内保持了较高活性，表明ＨＳＰ４３是优势抗原。本文结果提示，ＨＳＰ４３较易被免疫系统识别而产生应答，通过和宿主ＨＳＰ６０高度序列同源性而可能呈现分子模拟，从而诱导自身免疫损伤。     

Validation of an ELISA for the diagnosis of recent Campylobacter infections in Guillain–Barré and reactive arthritis patients

Weeks or months following Campylobacter infection, a small proportion of infected individuals develop Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) or reactive arthritis (ReA). Stool culture for Campylobacter is often negative in these patients, and serology is therefore the method of choice for diagnosing a recent infection with Campylobacter. This study developed a capture ELISA system to detect anti-Campylobacter IgA and IgM antibodies indicative of a recent infection. The sensitivity of the assay was 82.0% in uncomplicated Campylobacter enteritis patients, 96.2% in GBS patients who were culture-positive for Campylobacter, and 93.1% in culture-positive ReA patients, with a specificity of 93.0%. The assay allows identification of Campylobacter infection in patients with post-infectious neurological and rheumatological complications.     

格林—巴利综合征相关空肠弯曲菌脂多糖抗原初步分析

用格林－巴利综合征相关性空肠弯曲菌复制动物模型成功后的动物免疫血清对河北省格林－巴利综合征病人分离株空肠弯曲菌、动物来源株空肠弯曲菌及北京对照用人源株空肠弯曲菌及其脂多糖抗原性进行分析。结果显示，发生了典型的格林－巴利综合征样疾病的动物已产生了明显的抗格林－巴利综合征相关性空肠弯曲菌的免疫反应，其抗脂多糖抗体与当地其它来源株空肠弯曲菌有部分交叉反应，与北京分离株空肠弯曲菌无明显交叉反应。说明格林－巴利综合征相关性空肠弯曲菌脂多糖具有其独持的抗原性。支持某些特殊血清型的空肠弯曲菌参与格林－巴利综合征的致病过程。     

空肠弯曲菌慢性感染诱致自身免疫反应的机理初探

用空肠弯曲菌CJ—S131株感染昆明种小鼠3个月,观察到:(1)感染鼠血清中,出现高滴度的抗ds—DNA和ss—DNA抗体;(2)Con A诱导的抑制细胞功能降低和TH/Ts细胞比值增加;(3)PFC形成和LPS诱致的淋巴细胞转化作用增强:(4)DTH和Con A及PHA诱致的淋巴细胞转化作用增强。提示,CJ—S131感染小鼠使其T_S细胞功能降低,导致T_H细胞功能偏亢,B细胞功能亢进,这可能与自身免疫反应的产生有关。     

贵州与中国大陆其它地区空肠弯曲菌MLST特征的比较分析

目的 了解贵州省鸡源空肠弯曲菌的分子流行特征,阐明各地菌株间的亲缘关系和进化特征。方法 在贵州省随机抽取7个大型养鸡场,共采集210份鸡的新鲜粪便样本,分离培养出38株空肠弯曲菌,采用多位点序列分型对分离株的序列型及克隆复合体进行构成和聚类分析,与PubMLST数据库中来自国内的分离株分子特征进行比较。结果 贵州省38株鸡源空肠弯曲菌分为23种ST型和8个克隆复合体,其中9种是目前中国大陆地区已有的ST型,2个等位基因和8种序列型为新发现的。ST型构成比前四位分别是ST - 45、ST - 161、ST - 354、ST - 4 324,与数据库中已有的6株贵州来源菌株相比,不存在共同的ST型。优势克隆复合体（CC - 45、CC - 354、CC - 52）与数据库中鸡源分离株的前三位克隆复合体没有重叠。菌株遗传进化树显示,本研究中属于优势克隆复合体的18株菌与国内部分人源、猪源、野生鸟源、鹅源分离株有较近的遗传距离。结论 贵州省鸡源空肠弯曲菌具有高度遗传多样性,在一定程度上表现出地域流行特征。序列型与国内华东地区的分离株有较高的交叉性,部分分离株与国内人、野生鸟、鹅等来源分离株遗传距离近,应加强对不同地区、不同宿主来源空肠弯曲菌的动态监测。