某养老机构新型冠状病毒肺炎聚集性疫情流行病学特征分析

目的对某养老机构发生一起新型冠状病毒肺炎(COVID-19)聚集性疫情进行回顾性流行病学调查和分析。方法采用"新型冠状病毒肺炎防控方案(第三版)"推荐的个案调查表和依照"新型冠状病毒肺炎聚集性疫情流行病学调查指南(试行第一版)"进行。结果某养老机构有8名护理人员和住院老人感染新冠肺炎,年龄中位为59岁,男、女比例1∶7。于末次暴露后4~15 d确诊。排查出225名密切接触者,无三代院内续发传播;不排除无症状感染存在传染的可能性;病亡1例。结论本次聚集性疫情的感染来源于新冠肺炎确诊病例。建议防控策略应关注养老机构、监管场所等重点部门、重点人群的管控与监测。     

Stepped‐wedge cluster randomised controlled trials: a generic framework including parallel and multiple‐level designs

Stepped‐wedge cluster randomised trials (SW‐CRTs) are being used with increasing frequency in health service evaluation. Conventionally, these studies are cross‐sectional in design with equally spaced steps, with an equal number of clusters randomised at each step and data collected at each and every step. Here we introduce several variations on this design and consider implications for power. One modification we consider is the incomplete cross‐sectional SW‐CRT, where the number of clusters varies at each step or where at some steps, for example, implementation or transition periods, data are not collected. We show that the parallel CRT with staggered but balanced randomisation can be considered a special case of the incomplete SW‐CRT. As too can the parallel CRT with baseline measures. And we extend these designs to allow for multiple layers of clustering, for example, wards within a hospital. Building on results for complete designs, power and detectable difference are derived using a Wald test and obtaining the variance–covariance matrix of the treatment effect assuming a generalised linear mixed model. These variations are illustrated by several real examples. We recommend that whilst the impact of transition periods on power is likely to be small, where they are a feature of the design they should be incorporated. We also show examples in which the power of a SW‐CRT increases as the intra‐cluster correlation (ICC) increases and demonstrate that the impact of the ICC is likely to be smaller in a SW‐CRT compared with a parallel CRT, especially where there are multiple levels of clustering. Finally, through this unified framework, the efficiency of the SW‐CRT and the parallel CRT can be compared. © 2014 The Authors. Statistics in Medicine Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.     

Congruence Between Latent Class and K-Modes Analyses in the Identification of Oncology Patients With Distinct Symptom Experiences

Context

Risk profiling of oncology patients based on their symptom experience assists clinicians to provide more personalized symptom management interventions. Recent findings suggest that oncology patients with distinct symptom profiles can be identified using a variety of analytic methods.

2010—2019年宝鸡市 手足口病流行特征及时空聚集分析

[摘要]　目的?分析陕西省宝鸡市2010—2019年手足口病流行特征及时空聚集性,为本市的手足口病防控提供理论依据。方法? 收集宝鸡市2010—2019年手足口病发病数据和病原学监测结果,建立数据库,分析手足口病流行特征及优势病原谱的变化,再应用ArcGIS 10.1系统对手足口病发病进行空间自相关及热点分析。结果?2010—2019年宝鸡市累计报告手足口病35 546例,平均发病率为94.62/10万,男性发病率高于女性（χ2=1031.484,P=0.000）;各年龄组发病率不同（χ2趋势=61 405.833,P=0.000）,其中1～2岁组年平均发病率最高（2572.65/10万）。宝鸡市手足口病病原谱的构成：2010年优势病原为Cox A16（65.14%）,2011年、2012年和2014年优势病原为EV-A71（82.67%、48.97%和54.87%）,2013年、2015—2018年均以其他肠道病毒为主（62.11%、49.34%、53.02%、42.29%、80.50%）,2019年Cox A16和其他肠道病毒比例相当（55.42% vs. 43.07%）,各年间优势病原分布不同（χ2=874.879,P=0.000）。全局自相关分析发现2014年、2017年、2018年、2019年具有空间聚集性,高值聚集区为本市南部地区及主城区。结论?陕西省宝鸡市手足口病发病存在时空聚集性,应加强重点地区疫情防控,制定针对性防控措施。　
     

口腔鳞状细胞癌和癌旁组织的基因表达分析

目的利用来自美国国立生物信息技术中心(NCBI)基因表达数据库(GEO)的基因芯片数据,分析基因在口腔鳞状细胞癌(OSCC)中癌和癌旁组织的差异表达情况,为寻找癌和癌旁组织双边的抑癌靶标提供依据。方法选取来自NCBI-GEO数据库中OSCC患者的癌和癌旁组织,以及正常人口腔组织的基因芯片数据,分别计算得到前两者相对后者的差异表达基因,并进行功能聚类与特定基因的通路分析。结果大部分差异基因为癌与癌旁所共有,其中多数基因的差异表达方向在两者中一致,少部分方向不一致。如WIF1基因在癌组织中表达下调,但在癌旁组织中表达上调。这种差异表达行为的不同与基因的功能相关,因此,差异表达行为可能为抑癌靶标的发现提供线索。结论基因在癌和癌旁组织中的差异表达行为与基因的功能相关,具有特定差异表达行为的基因可能成为潜在的抑癌靶标。     

湖南省郴州市一起新型冠状病毒肺炎聚集性疫情流行病学调查

目的 通过分析郴州市一起新冠肺炎聚集性疫情相关病例发病确诊过程,探讨新冠病例早发现、早报告以及病例诊断和隔离观察解除的策略依据。 方法 对该起新冠肺炎聚集性疫情的病例和密切接触者进行现场流行病学调查,描述性分析流行病学史、临床和实验室资料。 结果 利用大数据比对监测,在转送监测对象至集中场所隔离医学观察时发现了新冠肺炎确诊病例何某华,由此发现一起新冠肺炎家庭聚集性疫情,何某的5名密切接触者中有3人发病确诊（包含1名重症病例）,其中重症病例黄某第7次新型冠状病毒核酸检测阳性进而确诊,密切接触者中胡某有流行病学史、血常规白细胞下降和肺炎影像学改变,但是5次咽拭子核酸检测阴性,未确诊。 结论 大数据比对监测对发现传染病有积极作用;早期对有流行病学史人员单独隔离医学观察对防止聚集性疫情发生有重要意义;将2次核酸检测阴性作为新冠肺炎病例的排除标准和将核酸检测阳性作为确诊新冠肺炎病例的必备条件,值得探讨,这都可能放走传染源,导致新冠肺炎传播。     

Direct binding of GABAA receptor β2 and β3 subunits to gephyrin

GABAergic transmission is essential to brain function, and a large repertoire of GABA type A receptor (GABA_AR) subunits is at a neuron's disposition to serve this function. The glycine receptor (GlyR)‐associated protein gephyrin has been shown to be essential for the clustering of a subset of GABA_AR. Despite recent progress in the field of gephyrin‐dependent mechanisms of postsynaptic GABA_AR stabilisation, the role of gephyrin in synaptic GABA_AR localisation has remained a complex matter with many open questions. Here, we analysed comparatively the interaction of purified rat gephyrin and mouse brain gephyrin with the large cytoplasmic loops of GABA_AR α1, α2, β2 and β3 subunits. Binding affinities were determined using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy, and showed an ~ 20‐fold lower affinity of the β2 loop to gephyrin as compared to the GlyR β loop–gephyrin interaction. We also probed in vivo binding in primary cortical neurons by the well‐established use of chimaeras of GlyR α1 that harbour respective gephyrin‐binding motifs derived from the different GABA_AR subunits. These studies identify a novel gephyrin‐binding motif in GABA_AR β2 and β3 large cytoplasmic loops.