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Zhang X, Huang F. Letter to the Editor: Delayed-Onset Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection After Total Knee Arthroplasty. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2024. [PMID: 38683634 DOI: 10.1089/sur.2024.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/01/2024] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Xin Zhang
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Department of Infection and Immunization Laboratories, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Department of Infection and Immunization Laboratories, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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Wang L, Zhang X, Wang W, Huang F. A pregnant woman with pre-XDR PTB giving birth to a healthy newborn: A case report. Heliyon 2024; 10:e28530. [PMID: 38571639 PMCID: PMC10988000 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e28530] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2023] [Revised: 03/10/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
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We reported a late-pregnancy woman with pre-XDR PTB who had not received regular anti-tuberculosis treatment prior to delivery. Despite this, she successfully delivered a premature baby who exhibited normal growth and development, and subsequently completed her anti-tuberculosis treatment. This report suggests that delayed treatment for pre-XDR TB during late pregnancy does not necessarily increase the risk of treatment failure for the mother or the risk of neonatal tuberculosis.
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- Lei Wang
- Department of Infectious, Respiratory Medicine, Southwest Medical University, China
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- Department of Infectious, Respiratory Medicine, Southwest Medical University, China
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- Department of Infectious, Respiratory Medicine, Southwest Medical University, China
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- Department of Infectious, Respiratory Medicine, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, China
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Zhang X, Wang W, Wang L, Huang F. Letter to the Editor: Isolated Tuberculous Osteomyelitis of the Femur Without Pulmonary. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2024; 25:257-259. [PMID: 38471096 DOI: 10.1089/sur.2024.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/14/2024] Open
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- Xin Zhang
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Department of Infection and Immunization Laboratories, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Department of Infection and Immunization Laboratories, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Department of Infection and Immunization Laboratories, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Department of Infection and Immunization Laboratories, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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Wang L, Zhang P, Li G, Huang F. Letter to the Editor: Tuberculosis of the Spine Masquerading as a Benign Neoplasm. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2024; 25:253-254. [PMID: 38386984 DOI: 10.1089/sur.2024.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/24/2024] Open
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- Lei Wang
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Infection, and Immunity Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Department of Tuberculosis, Infection, and Immunity Laboratory, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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Wei H, Wang B, Xu Y, Fan W, Zhang M, Huang F, Shi C, Li T, Wang S, Wang S. The Mechanism of Ovule Abortion in Self-Pollinated 'Hanfu' Apple Fruits and Related Gene Screening. Plants (Basel) 2024; 13:996. [PMID: 38611525 PMCID: PMC11013273 DOI: 10.3390/plants13070996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2024] [Revised: 03/27/2024] [Accepted: 03/28/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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Apples exhibit S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility and typically require cross-pollination in nature. 'Hanfu' is a cultivar that produces abundant fruit after self-pollination, although it also shows a high rate of seed abortion afterwards, which greatly reduces fruit quality. In this study, we investigated the ovule development process and the mechanism of ovule abortion in apples after self-pollination. Using a DIC microscope and biomicroscope, we found that the abortion of apple ovules occurs before embryo formation and results from the failure of sperm-egg fusion. Further, we used laser-assisted microdissection (LAM) cutting and sperm and egg cell sequencing at different periods after pollination to obtain the genes related to ovule abortion. The top 40 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were further verified, and the results were consistent with switching the mechanism at the 5' end of the RNA transcript (SMART-seq). Through this study, we can preliminarily clarify the mechanism of ovule abortion in self-pollinated apple fruits and provide a gene reserve for further study and improvement of 'Hanfu' apple fruit quality.
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- College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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- College of Horticulture, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China
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Wang L, Zhang P, Zhang X, Wang W, Huang F. Letter to the Editor: Diagnosis of Purulent Spondylitis Was Confirmed After Acupuncture. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2024; 25:175-176. [PMID: 38330427 DOI: 10.1089/sur.2023.359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2024] Open
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- Lei Wang
- Department of Infectious Diseases, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, China
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Chen X, Yang X, Han X, Ruan Z, Xu J, Huang F, Zhang K. Advanced Thermoelectric Textiles for Power Generation: Principles, Design, and Manufacturing. Glob Chall 2024; 8:2300023. [PMID: 38356682 PMCID: PMC10862169 DOI: 10.1002/gch2.202300023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Revised: 04/24/2023] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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Self-powered wearable thermoelectric (TE) devices significantly reduce the inconvenience caused to users, especially in daily use of portable devices and monitoring personal health. The textile-based TE devices (TETs) exhibit the excellent flexibility, deformability, and light weight, which fulfill demands of long-term wearing for the human body. In comparison to traditional TE devices with their longstanding research history, TETs are still in an initial stage of growth. In recent years, TETs to provide electricity for low-power wearable electronics have attracted increasing attention. This review summarizes the recent progress of TETs from the points of selecting TE materials, scalable fabrication methods of TE fibers/yarns and TETs, structure design of TETs and reported high-performance TETs. The key points to develop TETs with outstanding TE properties and mechanical performance and better than available optimization strategies are discussed. Furthermore, remaining challenges and perspectives of TETs are also proposed to suggest practical applications for heat harvesting from human body.
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- Xinyi Chen
- Key Laboratory of Textile Science & TechnologyMinistry of EducationDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
- College of TextilesDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
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- Key Laboratory of Textile Science & TechnologyMinistry of EducationDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
- College of TextilesDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
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- Key Laboratory of Textile Science & TechnologyMinistry of EducationDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
- College of TextilesDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
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- Key Laboratory of Textile Science & TechnologyMinistry of EducationDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
- College of TextilesDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
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- Key Laboratory of Textile Science & TechnologyMinistry of EducationDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
- College of TextilesDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
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- Key Laboratory of Textile Science & TechnologyMinistry of EducationDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
- College of TextilesDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
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- Key Laboratory of Textile Science & TechnologyMinistry of EducationDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
- College of TextilesDonghua UniversityShanghai200051China
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Zhao YR, Zhao Z, Zhang J, Li KP, Yang JS, Sun F, Liao SM, Zhang JL, Huang F, Zhu J. [Efficacy of rituximab therapy for 10 patients suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus with intestinal involvement]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2024; 63:198-202. [PMID: 38326047 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20231016-00220] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2024]
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We retrospectively analyzed therapy efficacy and the adverse reactions of 10 patients suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with intestinal involvement treated with rituximab (RTX). Patients were hospitalized in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology of the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital from January 2015 to January 2023. Among the 10 patients, two were men and eight were women. The age of the cohort was (41.9±8.8) years. The age at disease onset was (28.8±9.2) years. The total course of the SLE diagnosis was(109.6±59.9) months. The course of the diagnosis of SLE with intestinal involvement was (89.3±50.2) months. The time from the appearance of intestinal symptoms to the diagnosis of SLE with intestinal involvement was 1.5 (1.0,8.0) months. The time from the diagnosis of SLE with intestinal involvement to RTX use was 13.0 (1.0,46.3) months. Follow-up duration after application of RTX treatment was (55.3±28.4) months. There were five cases of abdominal pain, four cases of abdominal distension, nine cases of diarrhea, three cases of nervous-system involvement, nine cases of lupus nephritis, and seven cases of serositis. All 10 patients underwent computed tomography and radiology of the abdomen. Eight patients had intestinal-wall edema, seven suffered intestinal dilation, four had target signs, three suffered congestion of mesenteric blood vessels, eight had increased mesenteric-fat density, and six had false intestinal obstruction. All 10 patients showed a low level of complement C3 (250-750 mg/L). Nine cases showed a low level of complement C4 (10-90 mg/L). The SLE disease activity index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K) at baseline in 10 patients was 20.5 (17.8, 30.0). After receiving RTX (0.5 g: day 1, day 14, or 375 mg/m2: day 1, day 14) induction treatment, the intestinal symptoms of 10 cases were relieved completely. Four patients had adverse reactions, of which three received a high-dose glucocorticoid combined with RTX treatment simultaneously. Adverse reactions manifested mainly as a reduced level of IgG and infection with herpes simplex virus in one case, reduced level of IgG and lung infection in one patient, lung infection in one case, and reduced IgG level in one patient. RTX may an efficacious treatment strategy for patients suffering from refractory SLE with intestinal involvement.
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- Y R Zhao
- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Fu R, Lin R, Fan ZP, Huang F, Xu N, Xuan L, Huang YF, Liu H, Zhao K, Wang ZX, Jiang L, Dai M, Sun J, Liu QF. [Metagenomic next-generation sequencing for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation]. Zhonghua Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi 2024; 45:62-67. [PMID: 38527840 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn121090-20230928-00147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
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Objectives: To investigate the value of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in the diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP) in patients undergoing allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) . Methods: The data of 98 patients with suspected pulmonary infection after allo-HSCT who underwent pathogen detection from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid between June 2016 and August 2023 at Nanfang Hospital were analyzed. The diagnostic performance of mNGS, conventional methods, and real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) for PJP were compared. Results: A total of 12 patients were diagnosed with PJP, including 11 with a proven diagnosis and 1 with a probable diagnosis. Among the patients with a proven diagnosis, 1 was positive by both conventional methods and qPCR, and 10 were positive by qPCR only. Pneumocystis jirovecii was detected by mNGS in all 12 patients. The diagnostic sensitivity of mNGS for PJP was 100%, which was greater than that of conventional methods (8.3%, P=0.001) and similar to that of qPCR (91.6%, P=1.000) . A total of 75% of the patients developed mixed pulmonary infections, and cytomegalovirus and Epstein-Barr virus were the most common pathogens. Mixed infection was detected in eight patients by mNGS and in five patients by qPCR, but not by conventional methods (P=0.008) . Conclusions: mNGS had good sensitivity for diagnosing PJP after allo-HSCT and was advantageous for detecting mixed infectious pathogens; therefore, mNGS might be an effective supplement to regular detection methods and qPCR.
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- R Fu
- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Clinical Medical Research Center of Hematological Diseases of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou 510515, China
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Chen H, Wu Z, Chen D, Huang F. Correlation between blood glucose level and poor wound healing after posterior lumbar interbody fusion in patients with type 2 diabetes. Int Wound J 2024; 21:e14340. [PMID: 37580856 PMCID: PMC10777750 DOI: 10.1111/iwj.14340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/16/2023] Open
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To investigate the correlation of blood glucose level with poor wound healing (PWH) after posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF) in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). From January 2016 to January 2023, a case-control study was conducted to analyse the clinical data of 400 patients with T2D who were treated by PLIF and internal fixation at our hospital. The following data were recorded: gender; age; body mass index (BMI); surgical stage; average perioperative blood glucose level; perioperative blood glucose variance; perioperative blood glucose coefficient of variation; glycated haemoglobin level; preoperative levels of total protein, albumin and haemoglobin; postoperative levels of total protein, albumin and haemoglobin; surgical time; intraoperative bleeding volume; operator; postoperative drainage volume; and postoperative drainage tube removal time of each group. The indicators for monitoring blood glucose variability (GV) included the SD of blood glucose level (SDBG), coefficient of variation (CV) and maximum amplitude of variation (LAGE) before and after surgery. According to the diagnostic criteria for PWH, patients with postoperative PWH were determined and assigned to two groups: Group A (good wound healing group; n = 330 patients) and Group B (poor wound healing group; n = 70 patients). The preoperative and postoperative blood GV indicators, namely SDBG, CV and LAGE, were compared between these two groups. We also determined the relationship between perioperative blood GV parameters and PWH after PLIF surgery and its predictive value through correlation analysis and receiver-operating characteristic curve. Of the 400 enrolled patients, 70 patients had PWH. Univariate analysis revealed significant differences between the two groups in the course of diabetes, mean fasting blood glucose (MFBG), SDBG, CV, LAGE, preoperative hypoglycaemic program, surgical segment, postoperative drainage time, incision length and other factors (p < 0.05). However, no significant differences were noted in factors such as gender, age, body mass index, hypertension, coronary heart disease, admission fasting blood glucose, preoperative haemoglobin A1c, surgical time, intraoperative bleeding volume, intraoperative blood transfusion volume and postoperative drainage volume (p > 0.05). The area under the curve (AUC) values of preoperative SDBG, CV and LAGE were 0.6657, 0.6432 and 0.6584, respectively. The cut-off values were 1.13 mmol/L, 6.97% and 0.75 mmol/L, respectively. The AUC values for postoperative SDBG, CV and LAGE were 0.5885, 0.6255 and 0.6261, respectively. The cut-off values were 1.94 mmol/L, 24.32% and 2.75 mmol/L, respectively. The multivariate ridge regression analysis showed that preoperative MFBG, SDBG, CV and LAGE; postoperative SDBG, CV and LAGE; postoperative long drainage time; and multiple surgical segments were independent risk factors for T2D patients to develop surgical site infection after PLIF (p < 0.05). The perioperative blood GV in patients with T2D is closely related to the occurrence of PWH after PLIF. Reducing blood GV may help to reduce the occurrence of PWH after PLIF.
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- Huajian Chen
- Department One of Spine SurgeryZhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineZhongshanPeople's Republic of China
- Department Seven of Traumatology OrthopedicFoshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineFoshanPeople's Republic of China
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- Department Seven of Traumatology OrthopedicFoshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineFoshanPeople's Republic of China
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- Department One of Spine SurgeryZhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineZhongshanPeople's Republic of China
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- Department One of Spine SurgeryZhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese MedicineZhongshanPeople's Republic of China
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Duan JF, Guo X, Qiu J, Huang F, Li J, Li Z, Zheng YJ, Sun XD. [Analysis of the current status and related factors of human papillomavirus infection among community-dwelling women aged 18-24 years without a history of vaccination in Shanghai City]. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2023; 57:2056-2063. [PMID: 38186156 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20230404-00257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2024]
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Objective: To understand the status of human papillomavirus (HPV) infection among young women without a history of vaccination in Shanghai, and analyze the related factors of HPV infection in this population. Methods: A total of 2 660 women aged 18-24 years old who had made an appointment for HPV vaccine at 36 community health service centers in Shanghai from July 2022 to February 2023 were selected as the study subjects. Basic information (including demographic characteristics, previous disease history, female menstrual and reproductive history, sexual life history, etc.) was collected by a self-filling electronic questionnaire. Cervical secretions were detected by HPV nucleic acid typing. The multivariate logistic regression model was used to analyze the factors related to high-risk HPV (HR-HPV) infection in the target population. Results: The age of the subjects was (23±1) years old, and the infection rate of HPV was 14.51% (386 cases), among which the infection rates of HR-HPV and low-risk HPV were 13.53% (360 cases) and 1.84% (49 cases), respectively. The main subtypes of HR-HPV infection were HPV52, 16, 58, 39 and 66. The multivariate logistic regression model analysis showed that compared with the control group, the OR (95%CI) values for HR-HPV infection in the group of married, earned less than 2 000 yuan/month, drank alcohol occasionally, gynecological disease history, had two or more sexual partners in the past year, and did not know whether the partners had other sexual partners were 0.41 (0.25-0.66), 0.39 (0.21-0.70), 1.45 (1.13-1.86), 1.29 (1.00-1.66), 2.18-5.18 (1.02-16.05), and 1.82 (1.31-2.54), respectively. Conclusion: The infection rate of HPV among women aged 18-24 years old in Shanghai remains at a high level. The main subtypes of HR-HPV infection are HPV52, 16, 58, 39 and 66. The marital status, economic income level, drinking status, gynecological disease history and sexual life history are related to HR-HPV infection.
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- J F Duan
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Immunization, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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- Department of Immunization, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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- Department of Immunization, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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- Department of Immunization, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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- Department of Immunization, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China
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- Department of Immunization, Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200336, China
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Schellenberg D, Gabos Z, Duimering A, Debenham BJ, Fairchild A, Huang F, Rowe L, Severin DM, Giuliani M, Bezjak A, Lok BH, Raman S, Chung P, Zhao Y, Ho C, Lock MI, Louie A, Lefresne S, Carolan H, Liu MC, Yau V, Ye AY, Olson RA, Mou B, Mohamed IG, Petrik DW, Dosani M, Pai HH, Valev B, Gaede S, Warner A, Palma DA. Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Oligo-Progressive Cancers: Results of the Randomized Phase II STOP Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2023; 117:S58. [PMID: 37784530 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2023.06.353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S) In the metastatic setting, there is uncertain benefit to localized eradication of one or more lesions that are progressing despite systemic therapy. This randomized phase II trial examined if patients with ≤5 sites of oligoprogression benefited from the addition of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) to standard of care (SOC) systemic therapy. MATERIALS/METHODS Eligibility criteria included age ≥18 years, ECOG performance status 0-2, and oligoprogressive disease, defined as 1-5 lesions actively progressing while on systemic therapy. Patients were required to have at least 3 months of disease stability/response on systemic therapy prior to oligoprogression. After stratifying by type of systemic therapy (cytotoxic vs. non-cytotoxic), patients were randomized 2:1 to SABR to all progressing lesions plus SOC (SABR arm) vs. SOC alone (SOC arm). The trial began exclusive to non-small cell lung cancer but did not meet accrual goals and was expanded in 2019 to include all non-hematologic malignancies. The primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS). Secondary endpoints included overall survival (OS), lesional control, quality of life (QOL), toxicity, and duration of current systemic agent post-SABR. RESULTS Between February 2017 and June 2021, 90 patients with 125 oligoprogressive metastases were enrolled across 8 Canadian institutions, with 59 patients randomized to SABR and 31 to SOC. Median age was 67 years (IQR: 61-73 years) and 39 (43%) were female. The most common primary sites were lung (44% of patients), genitourinary (23%) and breast (13%), with the most common oligo-progressive locations being lung (43%), bone (19%), lymph nodes (14%), and liver (13%). In the SABR arm, the most common fractionations were 35 Gy/5 (38% of lesions) and 50 Gy/5 (18%). Protocol adherence in the SOC arm was suboptimal: 3 patients (10%) withdrew immediately after randomization, and 7 additional patients (23%) received high-dose or ablative therapies. Median follow-up was 31 months. There was no difference in PFS between arms (median PFS 8.4 months in the SABR arm vs. 4.3 months in the SOC arm; however, the curves cross and 2-year PFS was 9% vs. 24% respectively, p = 0.91). Median OS was 31.2 months vs. 27.4 months, respectively (p = 0.22). Lesional control with SABR was 71% vs. 39% with SOC (p = 0.002). Median duration of post-randomization first-line systemic therapy was 10.3 months vs. 7.6 months, respectively (p = 0.71). Treatment was well-tolerated with 2 (3.4%) grade 3 treatment-related toxicities in the SABR arm and no grade 4/5 related events in either arm. QOL did not differ between arms. CONCLUSION Despite being a well-tolerated treatment providing superior lesional control, SABR for oligoprogression did not improve PFS or OS. Results may have been impacted by withdrawals and desire for ablative treatments on the SOC arm, and this lack of equipoise may make accrual to phase III trials difficult, although larger studies in select sub-populations are desired. (NCT02756793).
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- University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Division of Radiation Oncology, Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Radiation Medicine Program, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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- BC Cancer - Fraser Valley, Surrey, BC, Canada
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- London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada
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- Sunnybrook Odette Cancer Centre, TORONTO, ON, Canada
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- BC Cancer Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, BC Cancer - Vancouver Centre, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- BC Cancer - Centre for the North, Prince George, BC, Canada
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- University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC, Canada
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- BC Cancer - Prince George, Prince George, BC, Canada
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- BC Cancer - Kelowna, Kelowna, BC, Canada
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- BC Cancer - Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- BC Cancer - Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- BC Cancer - Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
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- Department of Medical Physics, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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- London Health Sciences Centre, London, ON, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, Western University, London, ON, Canada
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Chen D, Chen H, Huang F. Efficacy of surgical treatment and conservative treatment for cervical spinal cord injury without fracture and dislocation in adults: A meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore) 2023; 102:e34892. [PMID: 37603504 PMCID: PMC10443767 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000034892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 08/02/2023] [Indexed: 08/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of surgical treatment and conservative treatment for cervical spinal cord injury without fracture and dislocation (CSCIWFD) in adults by meta-analysis. METHODS With a time span from 2010 to 2022, PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang databases were searched for all clinical randomized controlled trials on the comparison of surgical treatment and conservative treatment for CSCIWFD in adults. The Cochrane quality assessment tool was used as the standard. Stata 16.0 statistical software was used for meta-analysis. RESULTS A total of 870 articles were retrieved, and 12 studies were finally included for meta-analysis. Among them, there were 451 patients in the observation group (surgical treatment) and 346 patients in the control group (conservative treatment). The results of meta-analysis showed that the observation group was superior to the control group in the effective rate (OR = 4.737, 95% CI [2.613, 8.586], P < .001), Japanese Orthopedic Association (JOA) score at 3 months after treatment (SMD = 1.038, 95% CI [0.417, 1.659], P = .001), 6 months after treatment (SMD = 3.135, 95% CI [2.120, 4.151], P < .001) and 12 months after treatment (SMD = 2.808, 95% CI [1.880, 3.737], P < .001). In addition, the JOA scores of patients at 12 months after surgical treatment (SMD = 6.397, 95% CI [4.654, 8.14], P < .001) and conservative treatment (SMD = 3.197, 95% CI [2.144, 4.24], P < .001) were significantly higher than those before treatment. CONCLUSIONS Surgical treatment can improve the effective rate and JOA score of adult patients with CSCIWFD compared to conservative treatment. This suggests that surgical treatment can significantly improve the patient's spinal cord function.
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- Deyuan Chen
- Department of Spine One, Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan, China
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- Department of Spine One, Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan, China
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- Department of Spine One, Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan, China
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Abbasi R, Ackermann M, Adams J, Aguilar JA, Ahlers M, Ahrens M, Alameddine JM, Alves AA, Amin NM, Andeen K, Anderson T, Anton G, Argüelles C, Ashida Y, Athanasiadou S, Axani S, Bai X, Balagopal V A, Barwick SW, Basu V, Baur S, Bay R, Beatty JJ, Becker KH, Tjus JB, Beise J, Bellenghi C, Benda S, BenZvi S, Berley D, Bernardini E, Besson DZ, Binder G, Bindig D, Blaufuss E, Blot S, Boddenberg M, Bontempo F, Book JY, Borowka J, Böser S, Botner O, Böttcher J, Bourbeau E, Bradascio F, Braun J, Brinson B, Bron S, Brostean-Kaiser J, Burley RT, Busse RS, Campana MA, Carnie-Bronca EG, Chen C, Chen Z, Chirkin D, Choi K, Clark BA, Clark K, Classen L, Coleman A, Collin GH, Connolly A, Conrad JM, Coppin P, Correa P, Cowen DF, Cross R, Dappen C, Dave P, De Clercq C, DeLaunay JJ, López DD, Dembinski H, Deoskar K, Desai A, Desiati P, de Vries KD, de Wasseige G, DeYoung T, Diaz A, Díaz-Vélez JC, Dittmer M, Dujmovic H, Dunkman M, DuVernois MA, Ehrhardt T, Eller P, Engel R, Erpenbeck H, Evans J, Evenson PA, Fan KL, Fazely AR, Fedynitch A, Feigl N, Fiedlschuster S, Fienberg AT, Finley C, Fischer L, Fox D, Franckowiak A, Friedman E, Fritz A, Fürst P, Gaisser TK, Gallagher J, Ganster E, Garcia A, Garrappa S, Gerhardt L, Ghadimi A, Glaser C, Glauch T, Glüsenkamp T, Goehlke N, Goldschmidt A, Gonzalez JG, Goswami S, Grant D, Grégoire T, Griswold S, Günther C, Gutjahr P, Haack C, Hallgren A, Halliday R, Halve L, Halzen F, Minh MH, Hanson K, Hardin J, Harnisch AA, Haungs A, Helbing K, Henningsen F, Hettinger EC, Hickford S, Hignight J, Hill C, Hill GC, Hoffman KD, Hoshina K, Hou W, Huang F, Huber M, Huber T, Hultqvist K, Hünnefeld M, Hussain R, Hymon K, In S, Iovine N, Ishihara A, Jansson M, Japaridze GS, Jeong M, Jin M, Jones BJP, Kang D, Kang W, Kang X, Kappes A, Kappesser D, Kardum L, Karg T, Karl M, Karle A, Katz U, Kauer M, Kellermann M, Kelley JL, Kheirandish A, Kin K, Kiryluk J, Klein SR, Kochocki A, Koirala R, Kolanoski H, Kontrimas T, Köpke L, Kopper C, Kopper S, Koskinen DJ, Koundal P, Kovacevich M, Kowalski M, Kozynets T, Krupczak E, Kun E, Kurahashi N, Lad N, Gualda CL, Lanfranchi JL, Larson MJ, Lauber F, Lazar JP, Lee JW, Leonard K, Leszczyńska A, Li Y, Lincetto M, Liu QR, Liubarska M, Lohfink E, Mariscal CJL, Lu L, Lucarelli F, Ludwig A, Luszczak W, Lyu Y, Ma WY, Madsen J, Mahn KBM, Makino Y, Mancina S, Mariş IC, Martinez-Soler I, Maruyama R, McHale S, McElroy T, McNally F, Mead JV, Meagher K, Mechbal S, Medina A, Meier M, Meighen-Berger S, Merckx Y, Micallef J, Mockler D, Montaruli T, Moore RW, Morik K, Morse R, Moulai M, Mukherjee T, Naab R, Nagai R, Nahnhauer R, Naumann U, Necker J, Nguyen LV, Niederhausen H, Nisa MU, Nowicki SC, Nygren D, Pollmann AO, Oehler M, Oeyen B, Olivas A, O'Sullivan E, Pandya H, Pankova DV, Park N, Parker GK, Paudel EN, Paul L, de Los Heros CP, Peters L, Peterson J, Philippen S, Pieper S, Pizzuto A, Plum M, Popovych Y, Porcelli A, Rodriguez MP, Pries B, Przybylski GT, Raab C, Rack-Helleis J, Raissi A, Rameez M, Rawlins K, Rea IC, Rechav Z, Rehman A, Reichherzer P, Reimann R, Renzi G, Resconi E, Reusch S, Rhode W, Richman M, Riedel B, Roberts EJ, Robertson S, Roellinghoff G, Rongen M, Rott C, Ruhe T, Ryckbosch D, Cantu DR, Safa I, Saffer J, Salazar-Gallegos D, Sampathkumar P, Herrera SES, Sandrock A, Santander M, Sarkar S, Sarkar S, Satalecka K, Schaufel M, Schieler H, Schindler S, Schmidt T, Schneider A, Schneider J, Schröder FG, Schumacher L, Schwefer G, Sclafani S, Seckel D, Seunarine S, Sharma A, Shefali S, Shimizu N, Silva M, Skrzypek B, Smithers B, Snihur R, Soedingrekso J, Sogaard A, Soldin D, Spannfellner C, Spiczak GM, Spiering C, Stamatikos M, Stanev T, Stein R, Stettner J, Stezelberger T, Stokstad B, Stürwald T, Stuttard T, Sullivan GW, Taboada I, Ter-Antonyan S, Thwaites J, Tilav S, Tischbein F, Tollefson K, Tönnis C, Toscano S, Tosi D, Trettin A, Tselengidou M, Tung CF, Turcati A, Turcotte R, Turley CF, Twagirayezu JP, Ty B, Elorrieta MAU, Valtonen-Mattila N, Vandenbroucke J, van Eijndhoven N, Vannerom D, van Santen J, Veitch-Michaelis J, Verpoest S, Walck C, Wang W, Watson TB, Weaver C, Weigel P, Weindl A, Weiss MJ, Weldert J, Wendt C, Werthebach J, Weyrauch M, Whitehorn N, Wiebusch CH, Willey N, Williams DR, Wolf M, Wrede G, Wulff J, Xu XW, Yanez JP, Yildizci E, Yoshida S, Yu S, Yuan T, Zhang Z, Zhelnin P. Observation of high-energy neutrinos from the Galactic plane. Science 2023; 380:1338-1343. [PMID: 37384687 DOI: 10.1126/science.adc9818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Accepted: 05/04/2023] [Indexed: 07/01/2023]
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The origin of high-energy cosmic rays, atomic nuclei that continuously impact Earth's atmosphere, is unknown. Because of deflection by interstellar magnetic fields, cosmic rays produced within the Milky Way arrive at Earth from random directions. However, cosmic rays interact with matter near their sources and during propagation, which produces high-energy neutrinos. We searched for neutrino emission using machine learning techniques applied to 10 years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By comparing diffuse emission models to a background-only hypothesis, we identified neutrino emission from the Galactic plane at the 4.5σ level of significance. The signal is consistent with diffuse emission of neutrinos from the Milky Way but could also arise from a population of unresolved point sources.
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- R Abbasi
- Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60660, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 53201, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
- Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, Australia
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst Elementary Particles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst Elementary Particles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst Elementary Particles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst Elementary Particles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 11529, Taiwan
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Institute of Basic Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Dienst Elementary Particles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Gent, B-9000 Gent, Belgium
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
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- Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E1 Canada
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and The International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
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Cai LJ, Wei XL, Wei YQ, Guo XT, Jiang XJ, Zhang Y, Yu GP, Dai M, Ye JY, Zhou HS, Xu D, Huang F, Fan ZP, Xu N, Shi PC, Xuan L, Feng R, Liu XL, Sun J, Liu QF. [A single-center study on the distribution and antibiotic resistance of pathogens causing bloodstream infection in patients with hematological malignancies]. Zhonghua Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi 2023; 44:479-483. [PMID: 37550203 PMCID: PMC10450548 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-2727.2023.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2022] [Indexed: 08/09/2023]
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Objective: To study the incidence of bloodstream infections, pathogen distribution, and antibiotic resistance profile in patients with hematological malignancies. Methods: From January 2018 to December 2021, we retrospectively analyzed the clinical characteristics, pathogen distribution, and antibiotic resistance profiles of patients with malignant hematological diseases and bloodstream infections in the Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University. Results: A total of 582 incidences of bloodstream infections occurred in 22,717 inpatients. From 2018 to 2021, the incidence rates of bloodstream infections were 2.79%, 2.99%, 2.79%, and 2.02%, respectively. Five hundred ninety-nine types of bacteria were recovered from blood cultures, with 487 (81.3%) gram-negative bacteria, such as Klebsiella pneumonia, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Eighty-one (13.5%) were gram-positive bacteria, primarily Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, and Enterococcus faecium, whereas the remaining 31 (5.2%) were fungi. Enterobacteriaceae resistance to carbapenems, piperacillin/tazobactam, cefoperazone sodium/sulbactam, and tigecycline were 11.0%, 15.3%, 15.4%, and 3.3%, with a descending trend year on year. Non-fermenters tolerated piperacillin/tazobactam, cefoperazone sodium/sulbactam, and quinolones at 29.6%, 13.3%, and 21.7%, respectively. However, only two gram-positive bacteria isolates were shown to be resistant to glycopeptide antibiotics. Conclusions: Bloodstream pathogens in hematological malignancies were broadly dispersed, most of which were gram-negative bacteria. Antibiotic resistance rates vary greatly between species. Our research serves as a valuable resource for the selection of empirical antibiotics.
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- L J Cai
- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, GuangZhou 510515, China
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Ni N, Wang N, Veronese V, Wang MZ, Wang JW, Wang CH, Li T, Xia YY, Huang F, Zhao YL. Current status and future prospects of TB digital treatment adherence technology use in China. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2023; 27:438-443. [PMID: 37231604 DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.22.0540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND: Digital treatment adherence technologies (DATs) have been recommended by the Chinese National Tuberculosis Programme since 2015. However, until now the extent to which DATs have been adopted in China remain unclear. In this study, we aimed to understand the current status and future prospects of DAT use in China.METHODS: A cross-sectional study was undertaken to collect data from all 2,884 county-level TB-designated institutions across China using a quantitative questionnaire and extraction of information from the Chinese TB information management system. Data were collected between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021.RESULTS: All of the 2,884 county-level TB-designated institutions responded to the questionnaire. We found that the utilisation rate of DATs in China was 21.5% (n = 620). Among those using DATs, the uptake of DATs among TB patients was 31.0%. Lack of financial, policy and technology support were the main barriers to adoption and scale up DATs at the institution level.CONCLUSIONS: The use of DATs is in an early stage in China; however, the number of institutions who offer DATs have increased significantly after July 2020. To facilitate the use of DATs, the national TB programme should provide more financial, policy and technology support, and a national guideline is required.
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- National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Xinjiang Province Center Disease Control and Prevention, Urumchi, China
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- Guangdong Tuberculosis Control Center, Guangzhou, China
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- Tianjin Tuberculosis Control Center, Tianjin, China
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- National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- National Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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He J, You E, Zhong Q, Huang F. Trends and seasonal variation of antibiotic consumption by community residents in Hefei, China, 2012-2016. Public Health 2023; 220:27-32. [PMID: 37229945 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2023.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/19/2023] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate the trends and seasonal variations of antibiotic consumption by community residents in Hefei, China, over a 5-year period. STUDY DESIGN This was an ecological study. METHODS Data on antibiotic consumption by community residents in Hefei between 2012 and 2016 were collected from the Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Statistical analysis was carried out using Microsoft Excel 2021, SPSS 26.0 and R4.1.3. An interrupted time series (ITS) analysis was modelled to assess the impact of policies on antibiotic consumption trends. RESULTS Amoxicillin and cephalosporins accounted for 63.64% and 30.48%, respectively, of the total defined daily dose per 1000 inhabitant-days (DID) of antibiotics in 2016. The total consumption of antibiotics decreased from 6.92 DID in 2012 to 5.61 DID in 2016 (Ptrend = 0.017). Seasonal analysis showed an average of 34.24% antibiotic consumption in the winter over the 5 years. The equation constructed by the ITS analysis was Y = 5.530 + 0.323X1 - 7.574X2 - 0.323X3 + ε. CONCLUSION Between 2012 and 2016, overall antibiotic consumption by community residents in Hefei decreased significantly. The impact of antibiotic policies, implemented between 2011 and 2013, started to appear in 2014 when the consumption of antibiotics decreased. This study has important policy implications for the use of antibiotics at the community level. Further studies on the trends of antibiotic consumption are required, and strategies should be designed to promote appropriate use of antibiotics.
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- J He
- School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China
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- Hefei Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hefei, Anhui, PR China
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- School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China.
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- School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, PR China.
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Cao B, Liu M, Jiang T, Yu Q, Yuan T, Ding P, Zhou X, Huang F, Huang Y, Jiang J. HIV-1 RNA and DNA genotyping drug resistance detection in patients with low-level viremia in Liangshan, China. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses 2023. [PMID: 37183411 DOI: 10.1089/aid.2022.0140] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2023] Open
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In this study, we characterized HIV-1 RNA and HIV-1 DNA genotyping drug resistance detection in patients with low-level viremia in Liangshan, China. Whole blood samples were collected from HIV/AIDS patients who had received anti-retroviral therapy for more than six months and whose HIV-1 RNA loads were 50-1000 copies/mL for two consecutive times at least one month apart. The patients were enrolled from a county in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province between May 2021 and May 2022. Plasma and blood cells were separated. Plasma samples were tested for HIV-1 RNA genotyping drug resistance, while blood cell samples were tested for HIV-1 DNA genotyping drug resistance. Then, HIV-1 RNA and HIV-1 DNA genotyping drug resistance outcomes were compared. Among the 32 participants, 16 were males while 16 were females; with the median age of 34.5 years. The main HIV-1 infection route was heterosexual transmission. The median anti-retroviral therapy duration was 3.9 years. Two types of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) + one non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) were the main antiviral therapeutic options. Pol region genes for 28 HIV-1 DNA samples and 10 HIV-1 RNA samples were successfully amplified. The success rate of pol region genes amplification for HIV-1 DNA was significantly higher than that of HIV-1 RNA (χ2 = 20.988, P < 0.05). In HIV-1 RNA and HIV-1 DNA samples, M184 (4/8) and K103 (3/8) were the most frequent drug resistance mutation sites. Among the NNRTIs, the rates of drug resistance were highest to EFV (6/8) and NVP (6/8) while among the NRTIs, the rates of drug resistance were highest to ABC (4/8), FTC (4/8) and 3TC (4/8). In conclusion, detection of HIV-1 RNA genotyping drug resistance combined with HIV-1 DNA genotyping drug resistance can improve the success rate of drug resistance detection in patients with low-level viremia.
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- Bianchuan Cao
- Guangxi Medical University First Affiliated Hospital, 117742, Department of Infectious Disease, Nanning, China
- The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, 556508, Department of Infectious Disease, Luzhou, Sichuan, China;
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- First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Antiviral Therapy Center, Liangshan, China;
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- First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Antiviral Therapy Center, Liangshan, China;
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- First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Antiviral Therapy Center, Liangshan, China;
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- First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Antiviral Therapy Center, Liangshan, China;
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- First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Antiviral Therapy Center, Liangshan, China;
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- First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Antiviral Therapy Center, Liangshan, China;
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- The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, 556508, Department of Infectious Disease, Luzhou, Sichuan, China;
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- The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, 556508, Department of Infectious Disease, Luzhou, Sichuan, China;
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- Guangxi Medical University First Affiliated Hospital, 117742, No.6 Shuangyong Road, Nanning, China, 530021;
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Li P, Yu J, Huang F, Zhu YY, Chen DD, Zhang ZX, Xie ZC, Liu ZY, Hou Q, Xie N, Peng TH, Chen X, Li L, Xie W. SLC7A11-associated ferroptosis in acute injury diseases: mechanisms and strategies. Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2023; 27:4386-4398. [PMID: 37259719 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202305_32444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Ferroptosis is a kind of iron-dependent renewal programmed death. Its main mechanism is to catalyze the unsaturated fatty acids highly expressed on the cell membrane under the effect of divalent iron, to produce lipid peroxidation, thus inducing cell death. SLC7A11 is a known iron death-related factor. It has been proved that iron death is involved in the occurrence and development of acute diseases, but the specific mechanism is unknown. The purpose of this review is to highlight the regulatory properties of SLC7A11 and gain a deeper understanding of its role in ferroptosis-related acute injury diseases. This is a narrative review. PubMed was used as the main source to randomly implement literature search strategy to index Scopus articles. No specific terms are used. Studies have shown that SLC7A11 may affect the sensitivity of cells to iron ptosis by regulating it at the transcriptional or post-transcriptional level, which is related to the pathology of many acute injury diseases, such as acute lung injury (ALI), acute kidney injury (AKI), acute liver injury, myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury, and acute cerebral hemorrhage. In order to clarify this point, more and more researchers turn their attention to the study of the specific mechanism between SLC7A11 and ferroptosis-related acute injury diseases. In summary, this review summarized some specific mechanisms by which ferroptosis could be controlled by SLC7A11 and clarified the underlying mechanisms of a series of diseases caused by SLC7A11-associated ferroptosis. It also provided more scientific justification for the clinical application of targeting ferroptosis in preventing and treating various diseases.
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- P Li
- Clinical Anatomy and Reproductive Medicine Application Institute, Hengyang Medical School, University of South China, Hengyang, Hunan, China.
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Su Q, Wu Y, Wang S, Li Y, Zhao J, Huang F, Wu J. The reverse function of lignin-degrading enzymes: The polymerization ability to promote the formation of humic substances in domesticated composting. Bioresour Technol 2023; 380:129059. [PMID: 37075849 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 04/11/2023] [Accepted: 04/13/2023] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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This study aimed to confirm the ability of lignin peroxidase (LiP) and manganese peroxidase (MnP) in promoting the formation of humic substances (HS) during domesticated composting. Three raw materials with different lignin types were used for composting, including rice straw, tree branches, and pine needles. Results suggested that LiP and MnP activity increased during domesticated composting. But HS formation was only promoted by LiP. The effect of MnP was insignificant, which might be caused by the lack of enzyme cofactors like Mn2+. Meanwhile, bacteria highly associated with LiP and MnP production were identified as core bacteria. Function prediction of 16S-PICRUSt2 showed that the function of core bacteria was consistent with total bacterial functions which mainly promoted compost humification. Therefore, it speculated that LiP and MnP had the ability to promote HS formation during composting. Accordingly, it is a new understanding of the role of biological enzymes in composting.
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- Qunyang Su
- College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China
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- College of Life Science, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.
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Huang F, He N, Yu M, Li D, Yang D. Identification and fine mapping of a new bacterial blight resistance gene, Xa43(t), in Zhangpu wild rice (Oryza rufipogon). Plant Biol (Stuttg) 2023; 25:433-439. [PMID: 36689326 DOI: 10.1111/plb.13502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Bacterial blight (BB) is currently considered one of the most serious rice diseases and is caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo). Numerous studies have shown that breeding resistant rice varieties is one of the most effective methods to prevent BB, and it is important to identify and isolate more BB resistance (R) genes from different rice resources. Using a map-based approach, we identified a new QTL/gene, Xa43(t), from ZhangPu wild rice, which was highly resistant to the BB isolate PX099. We performed bulked segregant analysis combined with candidate gene prediction to identify the candidate gene. The Xa43(t) gene was narrowed down to a 29-kb region containing four putative genes. More importantly, the candidate gene Xa43(t) did not affect the main agronomic traits of rice. We also identified a widely applicable molecular marker, namely Inde1-18, which co-segregates with the Xa43(t) gene. The Xa43(t) gene is a new broad-spectrum BB resistance gene without identified alleles and has good application prospects for rice disease resistance breeding.
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- F Huang
- Rice Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fujian High Quality Rice Research & Development Center, Fuzhou, China
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- Rice Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fujian High Quality Rice Research & Development Center, Fuzhou, China
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- Rice Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fujian High Quality Rice Research & Development Center, Fuzhou, China
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- Anxi Agricultural and Rural Bureau, Anxi, Fujian Province, China
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- Rice Research Institute, Fujian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Fujian High Quality Rice Research & Development Center, Fuzhou, China
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Li A, Song X, Ren Q, Bao P, Long X, Huang F, Yuan L, Zhou JS, Qin X. Cobalt‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Deuteration of α‐Amidoacrylates for Stereoselective Synthesis of α,β‐Dideuterated α‐Amino Acids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202301091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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- Aibo Li
- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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- Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology 2199 Lishui Road, Nanshan District 518055 Shenzhen CHINA
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- Southwest University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences CHINA
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Li A, Song X, Ren Q, Bao P, Long X, Huang F, Yuan L, Zhou JS, Qin X. Cobalt-Catalyzed Asymmetric Deuteration of α-Amidoacrylates for Stereoselective Synthesis of α,β-Dideuterated α-Amino Acids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202301091. [PMID: 36929860 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202301091] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2023] [Revised: 03/15/2023] [Accepted: 03/17/2023] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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A cobalt-catalyzed deuteration of amidoacrylates using deuterated methanol afforded α,β-dideuterio-α-amino esters in excellent enantiomeric ratios (mostly >95:5) and almost complete deuteration (99%). The new protocol was used to prepare dideuterio-α-amino acid fragments in some drugs. Furthermore, the stereoselective deuteration was applied in a concise synthesis of dideuterio L-DOPA.
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- Aibo Li
- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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- Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, School of Chemical Biology and Biotechnology, 2199 Lishui Road, Nanshan District, 518055, Shenzhen, CHINA
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- Southwest University, College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, CHINA
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Cao B, Liu M, Jiang T, Yu Q, Yuan T, Ding P, Zhou X, Huang Y, Zou Y, Huang F. HCV Genotype Distribution and Clinical Characteristics of HCV Mono-Infected and HCV/HIV Co-Infected Patients in Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care 2023; 22:23259582231217810. [PMID: 38099656 PMCID: PMC10725143 DOI: 10.1177/23259582231217810] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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Objective: The present study aimed to characterize the genotype distribution and clinical characteristics of HCV monoinfected and HCV/HIV coinfected patients in the Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Methods: All the patients were divided into HCV monoinfection and HCV/HIV coinfection groups according to whether they were complicated with HIV infection. The data from the two groups were collected. Results: In this study, HCV genotype 3 was the most common genotype in both groups, while HCV genotype 6 was significantly higher in the coinfection group than in the monoinfection group (p = 0.046). The white blood cell count, total bilirubin level, and HCV RNA were significantly higher in the HCV monoinfection group than that in the HCV/HIV coinfection group (p = 0.031; p < 0.001; p = 0.027, respectively). Conclusion: HCV prevalence was high in HIV-positive patients in the Liangshan Prefecture. Thus, incorporating screening and management of HCV monoinfection and HCV/HIV coinfection is needed in local region programs.
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- Department of Infectious Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Antiviral Therapy Center, The First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Liangshan, China
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- Antiviral Therapy Center, The First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Liangshan, China
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- Antiviral Therapy Center, The First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Liangshan, China
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- Antiviral Therapy Center, The First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Liangshan, China
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- Antiviral Therapy Center, The First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Liangshan, China
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- Antiviral Therapy Center, The First People's Hospital of Yuexi County, Liangshan, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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- Department of Infectious Disease, The Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China
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Zhao YR, Li KP, Deng XH, Liu XF, Liao SM, Yang JS, Zheng X, Zhang JL, Huang F, Zhu J. [Efficacy and safety of half-dose rituximab in the treatment of 23 cases with lupus nephritis]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2023; 62:84-87. [PMID: 36631042 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20220214-00105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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The study aimed to analyze the efficacy and safety of rituximab in the treatment of 23 cases of lupus nephritis and explore the prospect of half-dose rituximab in lupus nephritis treatment. Twenty-three patients with lupus nephritis hospitalized in the Department of Rheumatology and Immunology at the First Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital from May 2013 to December 2021 were selected. Eighteen patients received rituximab 375 mg/m2 on the first and 14th days, 5 patients received 500 mg of rituximab on the first and 14th days, and rituximab was used as needed 6 months later. Methylprednisolone (80-120 mg) was given together with rituximab. Afterward, 1 mg/kg prednisone was used for 4 weeks, which was progressively tapered to maintenance doses or discontinued. B lymphocyte level, renal function, 24-h urine protein level, and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity index 2000 (SLEDAI2K) score before and after treatment were recorded. The efficacy and adverse reactions were analyzed. The results showed that 11 patients suffered from renal insufficiency [creatinine (162.7±58.6) μmol/L ] at baseline, while the creatinine level of 9 patients returned to normal 12 months after the treatment [ (66.3±10.1)μmol/L ]. Normal renal function of the other 12 patients was maintained during treatment. After 12 months, the 24-h urine protein level decreased from 4.00 (2.00,6.80) g in the baseline period to 0.10 (0.08,0.40) g. SLEDAI2K score decreased from 22 (18,26) in the baseline period to 3 (0,6) 12 months after the treatment. The B lymphocyte level reached 0.00 (0.00,0.01)% at 3 months. Of 23 patients, 13 patients achieved complete remission, and 7 patients achieved partial remission after 6 months of rituximab treatment. Five patients experienced adverse reactions related to rituximab, including 1 case of transfusion reaction, 1 case of perioral herpes with pulmonary infection, and 3 cases of decreased IgG levels. Therefore, rituximab regimen used in this study can be an effective treatment strategy for lupus nephritis.
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Hainan Hospital, PLA General Hospital, Sanya 572000, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the First Medical Center of PLA General Hospital, Beijing 100853, China
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Jia X, Su C, Du W, Zhang X, Wang L, Huang F, Bai J, Wei Y, Wang Z, Zhang B, Wang H. Association of Dietary Quality with Cognitive Function in Chinese Adults Aged 55 Years and Above: A Longitudinal Study. J Nutr Health Aging 2023; 27:514-523. [PMID: 37498099 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-023-1941-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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OBJECTIVES Diet is an important modifiable factor for brain health and aging. Present study aimed to explore association of dietary quality with cognitive function and poor cognition in middle-aged and older adults participating in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). DESIGN A longitudinal study with a twenty-year follow-up. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Data were drawn from the CHNS 1997, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2015 and 2018. Subjects aged 55 years and more who participated in at least two waves and had completed data on socio-demographics, lifestyle, disease history, anthropometrics, dietary measure and cognitive assessment were eligible in present study. METHODS Baseline diet were assessed by 3-day 24-hour dietary recalls and used to evaluate diet quality via China Elderly Dietary Guidelines Index 2022 (CDGI 2022-E). Cognitive function was examined using part items of the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status-modified. Three-level linear mixed effects models and three-level mixed effects logistic regression models were performed to estimate the association between diet quality and cognitive function and odds of poor cognition, respectively. RESULTS At baseline, 4173 subjects with median age of 63.7 years were recruited. Median of CDGI 2022-E total score was 44.7. Median score of global cognition was 16.0, and the proportion of people with poor cognitive function was 13.9%. Difference in global cognitive score was observed by tertiles of CDGI 2022-E (p<0.05). Significant associations of high diet quality with increment in global cognitive score [β (95%CI): 0.704 (0.394~1.015)], composite cognitive z score [0.086 (0.045~0.128)] and standardized verbal memory score [0.221 (0.122~0.320)] were observed in total subjects. Consistent associations were also found in those below 65 years at baseline. The likelihood of poor cognition in the highest tertile of CDGI 2022-E decreased by 18% (95%CI: 0.698~0.965) relative to the lowest tertile group in total population. CONCLUSIONS High diet quality may be beneficial for improving cognitive function and delaying cognitive decline in Chinese middle-aged and older population.
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- Wang Huijun, National Institute for Nutrition and Health, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention/Key Laboratory of Trace Element Nutrition, National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, Beijing 100050, China, Tel: +86-010-66237089;
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Paulson K, Logie N, Han G, Tilley D, Menon G, Menon A, Nelson G, Phan T, Murray B, Ghosh S, Pearcey R, Huang F, Wiebe E. Adjuvant Radiotherapy in Stage II Endometrial Cancer: Selective De-intensification of Adjuvant Treatment. Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol) 2023; 35:e94-e102. [PMID: 36150980 DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2022.08.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/24/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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AIMS Risk stratification, including nodal assessment, allows for selective de-intensification of adjuvant radiotherapy in stage II endometrial cancer. Patterns of treatment and clinical outcomes, including the use of reduced volume 'mini-pelvis' radiotherapy fields, were evaluated in a population-based study. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients diagnosed with pathological stage II endometrial cancer between 2000 and 2014, and received adjuvant radiotherapy in a regional healthcare jurisdiction were reviewed. Registry data were supplemented by a comprehensive review of patient demographics, disease characteristics and treatment details. The Charlson Comorbidity Score was calculated. Survival and recurrence data were analysed. RESULTS In total, 264 patients met the inclusion criteria. Most patients had endometrioid histology (83%); 41% of patients had International Federation of Gynecologists and Obstetricians grade 1 disease. Half (49%) had surgical nodal evaluation; 11% received chemotherapy. Most patients (59%) were treated with full pelvic radiotherapy fields ± brachytherapy. Seventeen per cent of patients received mini-pelvis radiotherapy ± brachytherapy, whereas 24% received brachytherapy alone. Five-year recurrence-free survival was 87% for the entire cohort, with no significant difference by adjuvant radiotherapy approach. Only one patient receiving mini-pelvis radiotherapy ± brachytherapy recurred in the pelvis but outside of the mini-pelvis field. Recorded late toxicity rates were highest for full pelvis radiotherapy + brachytherapy. CONCLUSION Risk stratification in a real-world setting allowed for selective de-intensification of adjuvant radiation with equivalent outcomes for stage II endometrial cancer. Mini-pelvis radiotherapy combined with brachytherapy is effective in highly selected patients, with the potential to decrease toxicity without compromising local control. Brachytherapy should be considered in low-risk stage II patients.
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Cancer Control, Alberta Health Services, Holy Cross Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Cancer Control, Alberta Health Services, Holy Cross Centre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Oncology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
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A supermassive black hole, obscured by cosmic dust, powers the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068. Neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter, could provide information on the galaxy’s active core. We searched for neutrino emission from astrophysical objects using data recorded with the IceCube neutrino detector between 2011 and 2020. The positions of 110 known gamma-ray sources were individually searched for neutrino detections above atmospheric and cosmic backgrounds. We found that NGC 1068 has an excess of
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Al Balushi M, Baldwin L, Wiebe E, Cuartero J, Maeda N, Nijjar Y, Menon G, Huang F. Immerse, Interact and Iterate: Virtual Reality Prototyping of Cervical Brachytherapy Procedures. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.1769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Wu X, Xu R, Yu W, Huang F, Zheng XJ, Zhao XR, Li YH, Duan Y. [In situ recurrence and sacral metastasis after surgery: a case of adrenal pheochromocytoma]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2022; 61:1260-1262. [PMID: 36323570 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20211229-00924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Cardiology, Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Medical Ultrasound, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Cardiology, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan 250014, China
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- Department of Nuclear Medicine, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Jinan 250014, China
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Joseph K, Menon G, Paterson I, Abraham A, Pituskin E, Vaihenberg E, Menon A, Ghosh S, Murland S, Chafe S, Tankel K, Gabos Z, Huang F, Wiebe E, King K. Radiation-Induced Acute Cardiotoxicity in Women with Left Sided Breast Cancer: Results from a Phase II Prospective Clinical Trial. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.07.742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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Zhang S, Qiu L, Wu D, Zhang S, Pan C, Li C, Xiao H, Huang F, Wang H, Jiang F, Zhang H, Zheng P, Lu Z. Predictors for Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis - China, 2018-2020. China CDC Wkly 2022; 4:907-911. [PMID: 36426288 PMCID: PMC9681604 DOI: 10.46234/ccdcw2022.187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2022] [Accepted: 10/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC? Multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a critical global public health problem. WHAT IS ADDED BY THIS REPORT? Sputum cultures and lung images show a strong association with treatment outcomes, serving as a multi-dimensional approach to identify MDR-TB patients with poor outcomes. WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE? The results imply that funds and policy investments should be increased by early monitoring of MDR-TB patients, especially regarding imaging and sputum bacterium. By informing physicians on changes to the therapeutic schedule, treatment outcomes can be improved.
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- Shunxian Zhang
- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- The Lung Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University, Shanghai, China
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- Chongqing Infections Disease of Medical Center, Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, China
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- Anhui Chest Hospital, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China
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- Dongzhimen Hospital Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
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- Longhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China,Zhenhui Lu,
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Abbasi R, Ackermann M, Adams J, Aguilar JA, Ahlers M, Ahrens M, Alameddine JM, Alves AA, Amin NM, Andeen K, Anderson T, Anton G, Argüelles C, Ashida Y, Axani S, Bai X, Balagopal V A, Barwick SW, Bastian B, Basu V, Baur S, Bay R, Beatty JJ, Becker KH, Becker Tjus J, Beise J, Bellenghi C, Benda S, BenZvi S, Berley D, Bernardini E, Besson DZ, Binder G, Bindig D, Blaufuss E, Blot S, Boddenberg M, Bontempo F, Book JY, Borowka J, Böser S, Botner O, Böttcher J, Bourbeau E, Bradascio F, Braun J, Brinson B, Bron S, Brostean-Kaiser J, Burley RT, Busse RS, Campana MA, Carnie-Bronca EG, Chen C, Chen Z, Chirkin D, Choi K, Clark BA, Clark K, Classen L, Coleman A, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Coppin P, Correa P, Cowen DF, Cross R, Dappen C, Dave P, De Clercq C, DeLaunay JJ, Delgado López D, Dembinski H, Deoskar K, Desai A, Desiati P, de Vries KD, de Wasseige G, de With M, DeYoung T, Diaz A, Díaz-Vélez JC, Dittmer M, Dujmovic H, Dunkman M, DuVernois MA, Ehrhardt T, Eller P, Engel R, Erpenbeck H, Evans J, Evenson PA, Fan KL, Fazely AR, Fedynitch A, Feigl N, Fiedlschuster S, Fienberg AT, Finley C, Fischer L, Fox D, Franckowiak A, Friedman E, Fritz A, Fürst P, Gaisser TK, Gallagher J, Ganster E, Garcia A, Garrappa S, Gerhardt L, Ghadimi A, Glaser C, Glauch T, Glüsenkamp T, Goehlke N, Gonzalez JG, Goswami S, Grant D, Grégoire T, Griswold S, Günther C, Gutjahr P, Haack C, Hallgren A, Halliday R, Halve L, Halzen F, Ha Minh M, Hanson K, Hardin J, Harnisch AA, Haungs A, Hebecker D, Helbing K, Henningsen F, Hettinger EC, Hickford S, Hignight J, Hill C, Hill GC, Hoffman KD, Hoshina K, Hou W, Huang F, Huber M, Huber T, Hultqvist K, Hünnefeld M, Hussain R, Hymon K, In S, Iovine N, Ishihara A, Jansson M, Japaridze GS, Jeong M, Jin M, Jones BJP, Kang D, Kang W, Kang X, Kappes A, Kappesser D, Kardum L, Karg T, Karl M, Karle A, Katz U, Kauer M, Kellermann M, Kelley JL, Kheirandish A, Kin K, Kintscher T, Kiryluk J, Klein SR, Kochocki A, Koirala R, Kolanoski H, Kontrimas T, Köpke L, Kopper C, Kopper S, Koskinen DJ, Koundal P, Kovacevich M, Kowalski M, Kozynets T, Krupczak E, Kun E, Kurahashi N, Lad N, Lagunas Gualda C, Lanfranchi JL, Larson MJ, Lauber F, Lazar JP, Lee JW, Leonard K, Leszczyńska A, Li Y, Lincetto M, Liu QR, Liubarska M, Lohfink E, Lozano Mariscal CJ, Lu L, Lucarelli F, Ludwig A, Luszczak W, Lyu Y, Ma WY, Madsen J, Mahn KBM, Makino Y, Mancina S, Mariş IC, Martinez-Soler I, Maruyama R, McCarthy S, McElroy T, McNally F, Mead JV, Meagher K, Mechbal S, Medina A, Meier M, Meighen-Berger S, Micallef J, Mockler D, Montaruli T, Moore RW, Morse R, Moulai M, Mukherjee T, Naab R, Nagai R, Naumann U, Necker J, Nguyễn LV, Niederhausen H, Nisa MU, Nowicki SC, Obertacke Pollmann A, Oehler M, Oeyen B, Olivas A, O'Sullivan E, Pandya H, Pankova DV, Park N, Parker GK, Paudel EN, Paul L, Pérez de Los Heros C, Peters L, Peterson J, Philippen S, Pieper S, Pizzuto A, Plum M, Popovych Y, Porcelli A, Prado Rodriguez M, Pries B, Przybylski GT, Raab C, Rack-Helleis J, Raissi A, Rameez M, Rawlins K, Rea IC, Rechav Z, Rehman A, Reichherzer P, Reimann R, Renzi G, Resconi E, Reusch S, Rhode W, Richman M, Riedel B, Roberts EJ, Robertson S, Roellinghoff G, Rongen M, Rott C, Ruhe T, Ryckbosch D, Rysewyk Cantu D, Safa I, Saffer J, Sampathkumar P, Sanchez Herrera SE, Sandrock A, Santander M, Sarkar S, Sarkar S, Satalecka K, Schaufel M, Schieler H, Schindler S, Schmidt T, Schneider A, Schneider J, Schröder FG, Schumacher L, Schwefer G, Sclafani S, Seckel D, Seunarine S, Sharma A, Shefali S, Shimizu N, Silva M, Skrzypek B, Smithers B, Snihur R, Soedingrekso J, Soldin D, Spannfellner C, Spiczak GM, Spiering C, Stachurska J, Stamatikos M, Stanev T, Stein R, Stettner J, Stezelberger T, Stürwald T, Stuttard T, Sullivan GW, Taboada I, Ter-Antonyan S, Thwaites J, Tilav S, Tischbein F, Tollefson K, Tönnis C, Toscano S, Tosi D, Trettin A, Tselengidou M, Tung CF, Turcati A, Turcotte R, Turley CF, Twagirayezu JP, Ty B, Unland Elorrieta MA, Valtonen-Mattila N, Vandenbroucke J, van Eijndhoven N, Vannerom D, van Santen J, Veitch-Michaelis J, Verpoest S, Walck C, Wang W, Watson TB, Weaver C, Weigel P, Weindl A, Weiss MJ, Weldert J, Wendt C, Werthebach J, Weyrauch M, Whitehorn N, Wiebusch CH, Willey N, Williams DR, Wolf M, Wrede G, Wulff J, Xu XW, Yanez JP, Yildizci E, Yoshida S, Yu S, Yuan T, Zhang Z, Zhelnin P. Search for Unstable Sterile Neutrinos with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:151801. [PMID: 36269964 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.151801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2022] [Revised: 08/17/2022] [Accepted: 08/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
We present a search for an unstable sterile neutrino by looking for a resonant signal in eight years of atmospheric ν_{μ} data collected from 2011 to 2019 at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Both the (stable) three-neutrino and the 3+1 sterile neutrino models are disfavored relative to the unstable sterile neutrino model, though with p values of 2.8% and 0.81%, respectively, we do not observe evidence for 3+1 neutrinos with neutrino decay. The best-fit parameters for the sterile neutrino with decay model from this study are Δm_{41}^{2}=6.7_{-2.5}^{+3.9} eV^{2}, sin^{2}2θ_{24}=0.33_{-0.17}^{+0.20}, and g^{2}=2.5π±1.5π, where g is the decay-mediating coupling. The preferred regions of the 3+1+decay model from short-baseline oscillation searches are excluded at 90% C.L.
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- R Abbasi
- Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
| | - M Ahrens
- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
| | - N M Amin
- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
| | - K Andeen
- Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
| | - T Anderson
- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
| | - G Anton
- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
| | - Y Ashida
- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
| | - X Bai
- Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
| | | | - V Basu
- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology - CP3, Université catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
- DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1
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- Department of Physics and The International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and The International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- CTSPS, Clark-Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia 30314, USA
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Texas at Arlington, 502 Yates Street, Science Hall Rm 108, Box 19059, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and The International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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Yang B, Zhao S, Liu J, Yuan L, Huang F, Wang H. Isolated hand weakness due to brain lesion. Hand Surg Rehabil 2022; 41:654-657. [PMID: 35970441 DOI: 10.1016/j.hansur.2022.08.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Revised: 08/01/2022] [Accepted: 08/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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When hand weakness is linked to a brain lesion, there is risk of misdiagnosis. A case of hand weakness related to stroke is presented. The electromyography report indicated a segmental lesion of the median nerve at the wrist. Thus, the patient was initially diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, and was referred to the orthopedic department for release surgery. Because the symptom was immediate and did not include hand numbness, the orthopedic surgeon ruled out the previous diagnosis and ordered a head CT scan, which revealed stroke. Aspirin and other medications were given. Percutaneous carotid balloon angioplasty with stent implantation and percutaneous vertebral artery balloon angioplasty were performed. The weakness of the left hand was greatly improved. So far, only a few cases suggest that hand weakness may be linked to stroke. Therefore, physicians should pay attention to physical examination.
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- Department of Orthopedics, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Dade Road 111, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510120, Guangdong, China
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- The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Airport Road 12, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong, China
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- Clinical Medical College of Acupuncture Moxibustion and Rehabilitation, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Airport Road 12, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong, China
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- The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Airport Road 12, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong, China
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- The Second School of Clinical Medicine, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, Airport Road 12, Baiyun District, Guangzhou 510405, Guangdong, China.
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- Department of Orthopedics, Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, Dade Road 111, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou 510120, Guangdong, China.
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Macy M, Cash T, Pinto N, Pressey J, Szalontay L, Furman W, Bukowinski A, Foster J, Friedman G, HaDuong J, Fox E, Weigel B, Grevel J, Huang F, Phelps C, Childs B, Chung J, Chaturvedi S, Schulz A, DuBois S. Phase I dose-escalation study of the pan-PI3 K inhibitor copanlisib in children and adolescents with relapsed/refractory solid tumors. Eur J Cancer 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s0959-8049(22)00878-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Wu T, Lin F, Wang J, Li H, Liu M, Zhang YR, Wang WW, Huang F. [Hepatitis C elimination among drug users in China: challenges, strategies and experiences]. Zhonghua Gan Zang Bing Za Zhi 2022; 30:1002-1006. [PMID: 36299198 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn501113-20210311-00116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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The prevalence of hepatitis C among drug users in China is high, and thus it is one of the populations that needs attention to achieve hepatitis C elimination. However, due to the complexities of this population's situation, hepatitis C elimination still faces many challenges, such as difficult screening, low cure rate, poor compliance, and high reinfection rates. Therefore, the existing diagnostic and therapeutic system cannot meet the needs of this population. China has pledged to establish a unified system for drug users that will integrate drug treatment programs, education, medical care, and rehabilitation, creating favorable conditions for integrating hepatitis C diagnosis and treatment and improving the accessibility of drug users. Starting with the current situation and challenges of eliminating hepatitis C among drug users in China, in combination with cases from other countries, this paper discusses the strategy for eliminating hepatitis C and introduces what Hainan Province did to eliminate hepatitis C among drug users.
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- T Wu
- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570105, China NHC Key Laboratory of Control of Tropical Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570311, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570105, China NHC Key Laboratory of Control of Tropical Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570311, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570105, China NHC Key Laboratory of Control of Tropical Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570311, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570105, China NHC Key Laboratory of Control of Tropical Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570311, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570105, China NHC Key Laboratory of Control of Tropical Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570311, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Hainan General Hospital, Hainan Affiliated Hospital of Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570105, China NHC Key Laboratory of Control of Tropical Diseases, Hainan Medical University, Haikou 570311, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Fujian Jianxin Hospital, Fuzhou 350002, China
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- Department of Infectious Diseases, Fujian Jianxin Hospital, Fuzhou 350002, China
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Li AH, Zhao D, Wen XJ, Huang F, Lu L, Chen M, Gong C. [Analysis on the epidemic characteristics and genetic characteristics of varicella in Beijing from 2019 to 2021]. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2022; 56:1118-1122. [PMID: 35922241 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20220514-00479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The reported incidence of varicella in Beijing from 2019 to 2021 were 63.8/100 000, 32.2/100 000 and 38.6/100 000, respectively. There were two VZV epidemics in Beijing each year, one peaked in May and the other in November. However, the first VZV epidemic almost disappeared in 2020. Among the cases involved in the varicella outbreaks in school, the proportion of the students with no history of vaccine immunization, 1 dose of immunization and 2 doses of immunization were 33.12%, 44.79% and 22.08%, respectively. The major body of VZV breakthrough cases was children aged 6-14 years (523/755, 69.27%). The proportion of moderate- or severe-rash were 55.32%, 39.06%, 29.96% in the three groups of cases with no immunization history, 1 dose of immunization and 2 doses of immunization, respectively (P<0.001). A total of 1 089 varicella samples were collected, and 837 (76.86%) were confirmed to be PCR-positive for VZV and were identified as VZV wild strains. 311 VZV strains were sequenced successfully, and 307 strains were clade 2 (98.72%), 1 clade 3 (0.32%) and 3 Clade 5 (0.96%). Compared with the representative strains, the nucleotide similarities of ORF22 fragments were between 99.4% and 100%, and amino acid similarities were between 99.4% and 100%.
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- A H Li
- Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing Academy for Preventive Medicine, Beijing Institute of Tuberculosis Control Research and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing Academy for Preventive Medicine, Beijing Institute of Tuberculosis Control Research and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing Academy for Preventive Medicine, Beijing Institute of Tuberculosis Control Research and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing Academy for Preventive Medicine, Beijing Institute of Tuberculosis Control Research and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing Academy for Preventive Medicine, Beijing Institute of Tuberculosis Control Research and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing Academy for Preventive Medicine, Beijing Institute of Tuberculosis Control Research and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing Academy for Preventive Medicine, Beijing Institute of Tuberculosis Control Research and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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Huang F, Zhu J, Wang YH, Zhang JL, Jin HT, Zhang W, Su Y, Zhao Y. [Recommendations for diagnosis and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2022; 61:893-900. [PMID: 35922213 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20211226-00913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disease mainly affecting the sacroiliac joints, spine and peripheral joints. In China, standardized diagnosis and treatment of AS is still to be popularized. Based on the evidence and guidelines from China and other countries, Chinese Rheumatology Association developed standardization of diagnosis and treatment of AS. The purposes are: (1) to standardize the diagnosis and evaluation of AS; (2) to promote rational use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, biological as well as traditional disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs, so as to improve the patient's quality of life.
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- F Huang
- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Chinese PLA General Hospital,First Medical Center, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Chinese PLA General Hospital,First Medical Center, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100038, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Chinese PLA General Hospital,First Medical Center, Beijing 100853, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, the Second Hospital of Heibei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050000, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100730, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing 100044, China
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- Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Peking Union Medical College,Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, National Clinical Research Center for Dermatologic and Immunologic Diseases, Ministry of Science & Technology, State Key Laboratory of Complex Severe and Rare Diseases, Key Laboratory of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100730, China
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Abbasi R, Ackermann M, Adams J, Aguilar JA, Ahlers M, Ahrens M, Alameddine JM, Alispach C, Alves AA, Amin NM, Andeen K, Anderson T, Anton G, Argüelles C, Ashida Y, Axani S, Bai X, Balagopal A, Barbano A, Barwick SW, Bastian B, Basu V, Baur S, Bay R, Beatty JJ, Becker KH, Becker Tjus J, Bellenghi C, Benda S, BenZvi S, Berley D, Bernardini E, Besson DZ, Binder G, Bindig D, Blaufuss E, Blot S, Boddenberg M, Bontempo F, Borowka J, Böser S, Botner O, Böttcher J, Bourbeau E, Bradascio F, Braun J, Brinson B, Bron S, Brostean-Kaiser J, Browne S, Burgman A, Burley RT, Busse RS, Campana MA, Carnie-Bronca EG, Chen C, Chen Z, Chirkin D, Choi K, Clark BA, Clark K, Classen L, Coleman A, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Coppin P, Correa P, Cowen DF, Cross R, Dappen C, Dave P, De Clercq C, DeLaunay JJ, Delgado López D, Dembinski H, Deoskar K, Desai A, Desiati P, de Vries KD, de Wasseige G, de With M, DeYoung T, Diaz A, Díaz-Vélez JC, Dittmer M, Dujmovic H, Dunkman M, DuVernois MA, Dvorak E, Ehrhardt T, Eller P, Engel R, Erpenbeck H, Evans J, Evenson PA, Fan KL, Fazely AR, Fedynitch A, Feigl N, Fiedlschuster S, Fienberg AT, Filimonov K, Finley C, Fischer L, Fox D, Franckowiak A, Friedman E, Fritz A, Fürst P, Gaisser TK, Gallagher J, Ganster E, Garcia A, Garrappa S, Gerhardt L, Ghadimi A, Glaser C, Glauch T, Glüsenkamp T, Gonzalez JG, Goswami S, Grant D, Grégoire T, Griswold S, Günther C, Gutjahr P, Haack C, Hallgren A, Halliday R, Halve L, Halzen F, Ha Minh M, Hanson K, Hardin J, Harnisch AA, Haungs A, Hebecker D, Helbing K, Henningsen F, Hettinger EC, Hickford S, Hignight J, Hill C, Hill GC, Hoffman KD, Hoffmann R, Hoshina K, Huang F, Huber M, Huber T, Hultqvist K, Hünnefeld M, Hussain R, Hymon K, In S, Iovine N, Ishihara A, Jansson M, Japaridze GS, Jeong M, Jin M, Jones BJP, Kang D, Kang W, Kang X, Kappes A, Kappesser D, Kardum L, Karg T, Karl M, Karle A, Katz U, Kauer M, Kellermann M, Kelley JL, Kheirandish A, Kin K, Kintscher T, Kiryluk J, Klein SR, Koirala R, Kolanoski H, Kontrimas T, Köpke L, Kopper C, Kopper S, Koskinen DJ, Koundal P, Kovacevich M, Kowalski M, Kozynets T, Kun E, Kurahashi N, Lad N, Lagunas Gualda C, Lanfranchi JL, Larson MJ, Lauber F, Lazar JP, Lee JW, Leonard K, Leszczyńska A, Li Y, Lincetto M, Liu QR, Liubarska M, Lohfink E, Lozano Mariscal CJ, Lu L, Lucarelli F, Ludwig A, Luszczak W, Lyu Y, Ma WY, Madsen J, Mahn KBM, Makino Y, Mancina S, Mariş IC, Martinez-Soler I, Maruyama R, McCarthy S, McElroy T, McNally F, Mead JV, Meagher K, Mechbal S, Medina A, Meier M, Meighen-Berger S, Micallef J, Mockler D, Montaruli T, Moore RW, Morse R, Moulai M, Naab R, Nagai R, Naumann U, Necker J, Nguyễn LV, Niederhausen H, Nisa MU, Nowicki SC, Obertacke Pollmann A, Oehler M, Oeyen B, Olivas A, O'Sullivan E, Pandya H, Pankova DV, Park N, Parker GK, Paudel EN, Paul L, Pérez de Los Heros C, Peters L, Peterson J, Philippen S, Pieper S, Pittermann M, Pizzuto A, Plum M, Popovych Y, Porcelli A, Prado Rodriguez M, Price PB, Pries B, Przybylski GT, Raab C, Rack-Helleis J, Raissi A, Rameez M, Rawlins K, Rea IC, Rechav Z, Rehman A, Reichherzer P, Reimann R, Renzi G, Resconi E, Reusch S, Rhode W, Richman M, Riedel B, Roberts EJ, Robertson S, Roellinghoff G, Rongen M, Rott C, Ruhe T, Ryckbosch D, Rysewyk Cantu D, Safa I, Saffer J, Sanchez Herrera SE, Sandrock A, Santander M, Sarkar S, Sarkar S, Satalecka K, Schaufel M, Schieler H, Schindler S, Schmidt T, Schneider A, Schneider J, Schröder FG, Schumacher L, Schwefer G, Sclafani S, Seckel D, Seunarine S, Sharma A, Shefali S, Shimizu N, Silva M, Skrzypek B, Smithers B, Snihur R, Soedingrekso J, Soldin D, Spannfellner C, Spiczak GM, Spiering C, Stachurska J, Stamatikos M, Stanev T, Stein R, Stettner J, Stezelberger T, Stürwald T, Stuttard T, Sullivan GW, Taboada I, Ter-Antonyan S, Thwaites J, Tilav S, Tischbein F, Tollefson K, Tönnis C, Toscano S, Tosi D, Trettin A, Tselengidou M, Tung CF, Turcati A, Turcotte R, Turley CF, Twagirayezu JP, Ty B, Unland Elorrieta MA, Valtonen-Mattila N, Vandenbroucke J, van Eijndhoven N, Vannerom D, van Santen J, Veitch-Michaelis J, Verpoest S, Walck C, Wang W, Watson TB, Weaver C, Weigel P, Weindl A, Weiss MJ, Weldert J, Wendt C, Werthebach J, Weyrauch M, Whitehorn N, Wiebusch CH, Williams DR, Wolf M, Woschnagg K, Wrede G, Wulff J, Xu XW, Yanez JP, Yildizci E, Yoshida S, Yu S, Yuan T, Zhang Z, Zhelnin P. Strong Constraints on Neutrino Nonstandard Interactions from TeV-Scale ν_{μ} Disappearance at IceCube. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 129:011804. [PMID: 35841552 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.011804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2022] [Accepted: 06/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We report a search for nonstandard neutrino interactions (NSI) using eight years of TeV-scale atmospheric muon neutrino data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. By reconstructing incident energies and zenith angles for atmospheric neutrino events, this analysis presents unified confidence intervals for the NSI parameter ε_{μτ}. The best-fit value is consistent with no NSI at a p value of 25.2%. With a 90% confidence interval of -0.0041≤ε_{μτ}≤0.0031 along the real axis and similar strength in the complex plane, this result is the strongest constraint on any NSI parameter from any oscillation channel to date.
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- R Abbasi
- Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Université Libre de Bruxelles, Science Faculty CP230, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology-CP3, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
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- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
- DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Fakultät für Physik & Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E1
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and The International Center for Hadron Astrophysics, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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Zhao K, Huang F, Chen XY, Chang Y, Xu N, Shi PC, Liu H, Sun J, Xiang P, Liu QF, Fan ZP. [Clinical study of mesenchymal stem cells from third-party donors in the treatment of refractory late onset hemorrhagic cystitis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplanation]. Zhonghua Xue Ye Xue Za Zhi 2022; 43:488-493. [PMID: 35968592 PMCID: PMC9800226 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-2727.2022.06.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2021] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Objective: To examine the efficacy and safety of third-party bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the treatment of refractory delayed hemorrhagic cystitis (LOHC) after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) . Methods: Twenty patients with refractory LOHC received conventional therapy combined with MSCs obtained from third-party donors' bone marrow (BM) . MSCs were given intravenously at a dose of 1 × 10(6) cells/kg once weekly until either the symptoms improved or no changes in LOHC were seen after continuous infusion four times. BK viruria (BKV) -DNA, JC viruria (JCV) -DNA, and CMV-DNA were detected by real-time quantitative PCR before and 8 weeks after the MSCs infusion. Results: ① Of the 20 patients with refractory LOHC, 15 were males, and 5 were females, and the median age was 35 (15-56) years. There were 5 cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) , 9 cases of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) , 5 cases of myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) , and 1 case of maternal plasma cell like dendritic cell tumor (BPDCN) . There were 4 cases of HLA identical transplantation and 16 cases of HLA incomplete transplantation. ②The median number of MSC infusions for each patient was 3 (range: 2-8) . Seventeen patients achieved complete response, and one had a partial response after treatment. The overall response rate was 90%. Over a median follow-up period of 397.5 days (range 39-937 days) post-transplantations, 13 patients survived, and 7 died. The causes of death included aGVHD (1 case) , infections (5 cases) , and TMA (1 case) . ③The copy numbers of BKV-DNA and CMV-DNA in urine in the 8th week after MSCs infusion were significantly lower than those observed before treatment (11342.1×10(8) copies/L vs 5.2×10(8) copies/L, P=0.016; 3170.0×10(4) copies/L vs 0.2×10(4) copies/L, P=0.006, respectively) , while JCV-DNA did not significantly differ when compared to before treatment (P=0.106) . ④ No adverse reactions related to MSC infusion occurred in any of the 20 patients. Conclusion: Third-party bone marrow-derived MSC has significant efficacy and good safety in the treatment of refractory LOHC after allogeneic HSCT.
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Center for Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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- Department of Hematology, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Gangzhou 510515, China
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Wang L, Song C, Wang Y, Hu L, Liu X, Zhang J, Ji X, Man S, Yang Y, Peng L, Wei Z, Huang F. AB0784 Symptoms compatible with Rome IV functional bowel disorder in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. Ann Rheum Dis 2022. [DOI: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2022-eular.777] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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BackgroundClinical manifestations of gut problems except for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) have not been well-established in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). One study investigated that 30% patients with axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) had irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) symptoms meeting Rome III criteria.[1]ObjectivesTo determine the frequency of symptoms meeting Rome IV functional bowel disorder (FBD) in patients with AS, investigate factors associated with FBD symptoms, and assess whether having FBD symptoms might influence AS disease activity.MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, we consecutively enrolled 153 AS patients without known colonic ulcer and 56 sex- and age-matched controls to evaluate FBD (or its subtypes) symptoms.[2] In AS group, logistic regression models were used to explore whether demographic data, disease activity, level of gut inflammation, drug use, and fibromyalgia [3] were associated with presence of gut symptoms. Finally, potential impacts of gut symptoms on AS disease status were assessed in linear regression models.ResultsSixty (39.2%) of 153 AS patients had FBD symptoms, which was more prevalent than controls (23.2%). Besides, symptoms compatible with IBS and chronic diarrhea were detected in 18 and 43 AS patients respectively. For AS group, multivariable logistic regression analyses showed that symptoms of FBD, IBS, and chronic diarrhea were negatively associated with using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), and positively associated with comorbid fibromyalgia, respectively. In exploration about effects of FBD (or its subtypes) symptoms on AS disease activity by multivariable linear regression analyses, FBD symptoms and chronic diarrhea had positive associations with assessments of AS respectively.ConclusionPatients with AS had frequent symptoms compatible with FBD, IBS, and chronic diarrhea, proportions of which were lower in those with NSAID-use. The improvement of FBD symptoms, especially chronic diarrhea, might be conducive to disease status of AS patients.References[1]Wallman JK, et al. Ann Rheum Dis. 2020;79:159-61.[2]Mearin F, et al. Gastroenterology. 2016;18:S0016-5085(16)00222-5.[3]Wolfe F, et al. J Rheumatol. 2011;38:1113-22.Figure 1.Frequencies with symptoms meeting FBD criteriaTable 1.Univariable and multivariable associations between gut symptoms and assessments of ASGut symptomsUnivariableMultivariableβpβpASDAS-CRPaFBD symptoms0.2340.1120.294< 0.001IBS symptoms0.0390.863Chronic diarrhea0.2170.1720.3010.002BASDAIbFBD symptoms0.747< 0.0010.764< 0.001IBS symptoms0.2020.560Chronic diarrhea0.7610.0020.845< 0.001BAS-GcFBD symptoms0.936< 0.0010.979< 0.001IBS symptoms0.0590.889Chronic diarrhea0.9030.0030.9490.001ASAS HIdFBD symptoms1.941< 0.0011.6730.003IBS symptoms2.2630.0081.7690.046Chronic diarrhea1.5000.0151.3430.030BASFIeFBD symptoms0.4330.0490.4280.048IBS symptoms0.2960.376Chronic diarrhea0.4480.0600.4250.069BASMIfFBD symptoms-0.3730.190-0.4930.075IBS symptoms-0.4420.304Chronic diarrhea-0.1790.564 Besides gut symptoms, other clinical variables (Block-1) being chosen into hierarchical multivariable models were as follows: aHLA-B27, lnCRP, and lnESR; bHLA-B27 and lnESR; cHLA-B27 and lnCRP; dsex and TNFi; eHLA-B27, lnESR, and TNFi; fage and lnESR. Missing data ranging from 1-7%.Disclosure of InterestsNone declared
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Gentile P, Merlo M, Peretto G, Ammirati E, Sala S, Della Bella P, Aquaro G, Imazio M, Potena L, Campodonico J, Foà A, Raafs A, Hazebroek M, Brambatti M, Cercek A, Nucifora G, Shrivastava S, Huang F, Schmidt M, Muser D, Van De Heyning C, Van Craenenbroeck E, Aoki T, Sugimura K, Shimokawa H, Cannatà A, Artico J, Porcari A, Colopi M, Bussani R, Barbati G, Garascia A, Cipriani M, Agostoni P, Pereira N, Heymans S, Adler E, Camici P, Frigerio M, Sinagra G. C65 POST–DISCHARGE ARRHYTHMIC RISK STRATIFICATION OF PATIENTS WITH ACUTE MYOCARDITIS AND LIFE–THREATENING VENTRICULAR TACHYARRHYTHMIAS. Eur Heart J Suppl 2022. [DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/suac011.063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Aims
The outcomes of patients presenting with acute myocarditis and life–threatening ventricular arrhythmias (LT–VA) are unclear. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence and predictors of recurrent major arrhythmic events (MAEs) after hospital discharge in this patient population.
Methods and Results
We retrospectively analysed 156 patients (median age 44 years; 77% male) discharged with a diagnosis of acute myocarditis and LT–VA from 16 hospitals worldwide. Diagnosis of myocarditis was based on histology or the combination of increased markers of cardiac injury and cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) Lake Louise criteria. MAEs were defined as the relapse, after discharge, of sudden cardiac death or successfully defibrillated ventricular fibrillation, or sustained ventricular tachycardia (sVT) requiring implantable cardioverter–defibrillator therapy or synchronized external cardioversion. Median follow–up was 23months [first to third quartile (Q1–Q3) 7–60]. Fifty–eight (37.2%) patients experienced MAEs after discharge, at a median of 8 months (Q1–Q3 2.5–24.0 months; 60.3% of MAEs within the first year). At multivariable Cox analysis, variables independently associated with MAEs were presentation with sVT [hazard ratio (HR) 2.90, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.38–6.11]; late gadolinium enhancement involving ≥2 myocardial segments (HR 4.51, 95% CI 2.39–8.53), and absence of positive short–tau inversion recovery (STIR) (HR 2.59, 95% CI 1.40–4.79) at first CMR.
Conclusions
In this international multicentre study, patients discharged free from HTx or LVAD after an acute myocarditis complicated by LT–VA had a recurrence of MAEs during follow–up of 37.2%, after a median time of 8 months. Initial CMR pattern and sVT at presentation stratify the risk of arrhythmia recurrence.
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- P Gentile
- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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- DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER, AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACOVASCULAR DEPARTMENT, AZIENDA SANITARIA UNIVERSITARIA INTEGRATA DI TRIESTE AND UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE, TRIESTE; VITA SALUTE UNIVERSITY AND SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL, MILANO; DE GASPERIS CARDIO CENTER AND TRANSPLANT CENTER, NIGUARDA HOSPITAL, MILANO; FONDAZIONE TOSCANA G. MONASTERIO, MILANO; CARDIOTHORACIC DEPARTME
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Wang J, Pang Q, Wei W, Cheng L, Huang F, Cao Y, Hu M, Yan S, He Y, Wei Z. Definition of large niche after Cesarean section based on prediction of postmenstrual spotting: Chinese cohort study in non-pregnant women. Ultrasound Obstet Gynecol 2022; 59:450-456. [PMID: 34806258 DOI: 10.1002/uog.24817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2021] [Revised: 11/14/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE A large niche after Cesarean section (CS) is associated with long-term complications, of which postmenstrual spotting is associated positively with the size of the niche. However, the diagnosis of a large niche in the literature is inconsistent and the definition is largely subjective. The aim of this study was to generate a definition for a large niche in non-pregnant women based on the presence of postmenstrual spotting. METHODS Women who had undergone CS in our hospital between January 2012 and June 2017 were selected randomly from our database, contacted by telephone and subsequently examined between January 2016 and June 2020. Eligible for inclusion were non-pregnant women who had their last CS more than 1 year earlier and agreed to undergo transvaginal sonography (TVS). All participants underwent examination of their CS scar by TVS (two-dimensional color Doppler) during the midfollicular phase. Niche depth, length, width, residual myometrial thickness (RMT), adjacent myometrial thickness (AMT) and ratio of niche depth/AMT were recorded. Women diagnosed with a niche, defined as an indentation at the site of the CS with a depth of at least 2 mm, were classified into two groups (symptomatic or asymptomatic) according to whether they experienced postmenstrual spotting. Logistic regression analysis was used to establish the best cut-off values for the niche parameters to predict postmenstrual spotting. A new definition was generated based on the niche parameters with the highest area under the receiver-operating-characteristics (ROC) curve (AUC) for the prediction of postmenstrual spotting. RESULTS A total of 727 women who had a CS > 1 year earlier underwent TVS examination, of whom 263 were diagnosed with a niche (prevalence of 36.2%). Of these, 160 women experienced postmenstrual spotting and 103 were asymptomatic. The three variables with the highest AUC for prediction of postmenstrual spotting were niche depth/AMT ratio (AUC, 0.798; 95% CI, 0.745-0.852), niche depth (AUC, 0.731; 95% CI, 0.668-0.795) and RMT (AUC, 0.683; 95% CI, 0.618-0.748). Based on the best cut-offs according to ROC-curve analysis, a large niche was defined as: niche depth ≥ 0.50 cm, RMT ≤ 0.21 cm or niche depth/AMT ratio ≥ 0.56. The prevalence of a large niche according to this definition was 22.4% (163/727). The new definition had a specificity of 61.17% (95% CI, 52.34-70.41%) and sensitivity of 76.87% (95% CI, 70.28-84.16%) for a large niche. CONCLUSION This study has provided a new definition for a large niche after CS. © 2021 International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health and Genetics, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health and Genetics, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health and Genetics, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health and Genetics, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health and Genetics, Hefei, Anhui, China
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- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health and Genetics, Hefei, Anhui, China
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Chen Y, Zha Q, Huang F, Qiao C, Wang Y, Wang R, Li JY, Shen WY. [The efficacy of eltrombopag plus cyclosporine A in patients with transfusion-dependent non-severe aplastic anemia: a retrospective study from single center]. Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi 2022; 61:409-411. [PMID: 35340188 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112138-20210412-00276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The main purpose of our study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of eltrombopag plus cyclosporine A (CsA) in transfusion-dependent non-severe aplastic anemia(TD-NSAA). The clinical characteristics of 13 TD-NSAA patients who received initial treatment of eltrombopag plus CsA from 2019 to 2021 were retrospectively analyzed. The 3-month overall hematological response (OR) rate was 12/13. Until the end of follow-up, 12 patients responded, among whom 2 patients reached complete response (CR) and 9 patients reached partial response (PR) and 1 with HR. Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) developed in one patient at 6 months after treatment. Five of thirteen patients reported mild adverse reactions, which were all manageable. Compared with historical data, the combination of eltrombopag with CsA is an effective regimen in patients with TD-NSAA.
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- Department of Hematology, First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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Zhang Y, Xu W, Tang Y, Huang F. Protective effect of lithium chloride on pulmonary injury caused by Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae via inhibition of GSK-3β-NF-κB-dependent pathway. Pol J Vet Sci 2022; 25:35-44. [PMID: 35575861 DOI: 10.24425/pjvs.2022.140838] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Porcine contagious pleuropneumonia (PCP) is a very serious respiratory disease which is difficult to prevent and treat. In this study, the therapeutic effects of lithium chloride (LiCl) on PCP were examined using a mouse model. A mouse model of PCP was established by intranasal infections with Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae (App). Histopathological analysis was performed by routine paraffin sections and an H-E staining method. The inflammatory factors, TLR4 and CCL2 were analyzed by qPCR. The expression levels of p-p65 and pGSK-3ß were detected using the Western Blot Method. The death rates, clinical symptoms, lung injuries, and levels of TLR-4, IL-1ß, IL-6, TNF-α, and CCL2 were observed to decrease in the App-infected mice treated with LiCl. It was determined that the LiCl treatments had significantly reduced the mortality of the App-infected cells, as well as the expressions of p-p65 and pGSK-3ß. The results of this study indicated that LiCl could improve the pulmonary injuries of mice caused by App via the inhibition of the GSK-3β-NF-κB-dependent pathways, and may potentially become an effective drug for improving pulmonary injuries caused by PCP.
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Furong District, Nongda Road, No.1, Changsha 410128, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Furong District, Nongda Road, No.1, Changsha 410128, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Furong District, Nongda Road, No.1, Changsha 410128, China
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- College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Furong District, Nongda Road, No.1, Changsha 410128, China
- Hunan Engineering Technology Research Center for Veterinary Drugs, Hunan Agricultural University, Furong District, Nongda Road, No.1, Changsha 410128, China
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Sun K, Huang F, Liang B. A case report of intracardiac bone cement embolization after posterior decompression and cement-enhanced pedicle screw fixation for osteoporosis and lumbar degeneration. Medicine (Baltimore) 2022; 101:e28826. [PMID: 35212279 PMCID: PMC8878710 DOI: 10.1097/md.0000000000028826] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2022] [Accepted: 01/27/2022] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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RATIONALE Bone cement leakage is a common complication of percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) and percutaneous vertebroplasty (PVP) surgery and has also been reported in posterior decompression and cement-enhanced pedicle screw fixation. When bone cement leaks through the venous system, it will have serious consequences and even endanger the life of the patient, especially when the bone cement causes intracardiac embolism. PATIENT CONCERNS A 70-year-old woman developed chest tightness and decreased blood oxygen saturation following posterior decompression and cement-enhanced pedicle screw fixation. DIAGNOSIS After the patient was given symptomatic treatment, the symptoms were not relieved, the high-sensitivity troponin I level continued to rise, the electrocardiogram results were abnormal, and chest computed tomography (CT) revealed multiple flaky and strip-shaped dense shadows in the heart. INTERVENTION The patient underwent removal of foreign bodies from the heart under cardiopulmonary bypass and tricuspid valvuloplasty, removal of intracardiac bone cement, and repair of the tricuspid valve and chordae. OUTCOME The patient recovered well postoperatively and was discharged from the hospital after 3 weeks. There were no intracardiac foreign bodies observed on chest CT after the operation. LESSONS For patients with cardiopulmonary discomfort after posterior decompression and bone cement-enhanced pedicle screw fixation, in view of the limitations of radiographic examination, we recommend performing chest CT examination to confirm the diagnosis. For patients with intravascular foreign body embolism, multidisciplinary team joint treatment saves lives.
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- Department of Orthopedics, Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Orthopedics, Zhongshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhongshan, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Spine Surgery, the Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
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Meng YC, Huang F, Wang SL, Li MW, Lu Y, Pei DD. [Effect of hydroxyapatite based agents on the bonding properties of universal adhesives]. Zhonghua Kou Qiang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2022; 57:173-181. [PMID: 35152654 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112144-20210516-00250] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Objective: To study the effect of hydroxyapatite (HA) based agents on the bonding properties of universal adhesive with different application modes, and to provide evidence for the use of adhesives after desensitization treatment. Methods: Sixty impacted third molars were extracted and selected (acquired from Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University). Four third molars were used to prepare 1 mm thick dentin disks and treated with 1% citric acid to simulate sensitive tooth models. The dentin surfaces were observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) after treating with no desensitization (control group), desensitized by HA based toothpaste Biorepair and Dontodent Sensitive respectively (desensitizing toothpaste A group and B group), or HA paste treatment (desensitizing paste group ) (n=2 per group). The remaining teeth were selected to expose the mid-coronal dentin and establish dentin sensitivity models. Then, the specimens were divided into 4 former groups and received corresponding treatment. Each group was randomly divided into 2 subgroups, and intermediately strong universal adhesive (G-Premio Bond) was applied on the desensitized dentin by either etch-and-rinse mode or self-etch mode. Resin-dentin slice specimens (n=4 per subgroup), microtensile specimens (n=20 per subgroup) and slice specimens (n=6 per subgroup) were prepared. The microstructure and nanoleakage of the adhesive interfaces were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The microtensile strength (bond strength) and fracture mode were tested and recorded. The water permeability of the adhesive interface was observed by laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM). Results: SEM showed that desensitizing toothpaste and desensitizing paste could partially or entirely occlude most of the dentin tubules. For the etch-and-rinse mode, the bond strength of specimens treated with toothpaste A [(40.98±4.60) MPa], toothpaste B [(40.89±4.64) MPa] and HA paste [(41.48±3.65) MPa] was significantly higher than that of the control group [(38.58±4.28) MPa] (F=3.89,P<0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in bond strength among the 4 subgroups for self-etch modes (F=0.48,P>0.05). After desensitization, the bond strength of the control group and desensitizing groups in the self-etch mode was significantly higher than that in the etch-and-rinse mode (P<0.05). The overall fracture modes were mixed failure and interfacial failure in the control group and desensitizing groups. SEM showed speckled silver-stained particles deposited along the bottom of the hybrid layer on the bond interface of etch-and-rinse mode, and there were few silver-stained particles deposited on the bond interface of self-etch mode. LSCM showed continuous linear penetration in the hybrid layer of etch-and-rinse mode subgroups and discontinuous linear penetration in the hybrid layer of self-etch mode subgroups. Conclusions: HA based desensitizers have no adverse effect on the bond strength of intermediately strong universal adhesive and show good bonding performance accompanied with the self-etch mode.
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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- Department of Prothodontics, Hospital of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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- Key Laboratory of Shaanxi Province for Craniofacial Precision Medicine Research, College of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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- Department of Prothodontics, Hospital of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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- Department of Prothodontics, Hospital of Stomatology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710004, China
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Suo LD, Zhao D, Chen M, Li J, Dong M, Wang YT, Yu XL, Li MZ, Huang F, Pang XH, Lu L. [An investigation on serum antibody level of varicella-zoster virus in healthy population in Beijing]. Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi 2022; 56:108-113. [PMID: 35184436 DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.cn112150-20211221-01174] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Objective: To assess the level and trend of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) antibody among healthy population in Beijing in 2017, after the five-year implementation of the two doses varicella vaccination strategy in 2012, and to provide evidence for scientific evaluation of immunization strategy. Methods: A total of 2 144 subjects in ten age groups from 8 districts of Beijing city were recruited in this study using cross-sectional survey based on multi-stage cluster random sampling method. Serum samples were collected and VZV antibody was detected by ELISA. The influencing factors of antibody concentration and positive rate were analyzed and compared with the study in 2012. The antibody concentration and antibody positive rate were analyzed by nonparametric test and χ² test respectively. Results: The ratio of subjects with registered residence in Beijing city to other provinces was 1∶1. The ratio of male to female was 1∶1.08. The median concentration of VZV antibody was 341.4 (78.6, 1 497.8) mIU/ml, and the total antibody positive rate was 71.1% (1 524/2 144). There were significant differences in antibody positive rate (χ²=736.39, P<0.01) and antibody concentration (χ²=740.34, P<0.01) among different age groups. The antibody positive rate generally increased with age (χ²trend=7.32, Ptrend<0.01). Among 862 children under 14 years old, the antibody positive rate of two doses vaccination 72.8% (182/250) was significantly higher than that of one dose vaccination 51.9% (154/297) (χ²=25.14, P<0.01). There was significant difference between 1-4 years old group (χ²=11.71, P<0.01) and 10-14 years old group (χ²=5.95, P=0.02), but not in 5-9 years old group (χ²=3.00, P=0.07). Compared with the study in 2012, the antibody positive rate increased in 5-9 years old group (χ²=14.35, P<0.01) and decreased in 1-4 years old group (χ²=11.51, P=0.01) in 2017. Conclusion: The recommended varicella booster vaccination has significantly improved the VZV antibody level of children in Beijing city. In the future, it is necessary to explore a more optimized two doses varicella vaccination schedule for children in combination with epidemiological evidence.
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- L D Suo
- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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- Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Beijing Research Center for Preventive Medicine, Institute of Immunization and Prevention, Beijing 100013, China
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Abbasi R, Ackermann M, Adams J, Aguilar JA, Ahlers M, Ahrens M, Alispach C, Alves AA, Amin NM, An R, Andeen K, Anderson T, Anton G, Argüelles C, Ashida Y, Axani S, Bai X, Balagopal V A, Barbano A, Barwick SW, Bastian B, Basu V, Baur S, Bay R, Beatty JJ, Becker KH, Becker Tjus J, Bellenghi C, BenZvi S, Berley D, Bernardini E, Besson DZ, Binder G, Bindig D, Blaufuss E, Blot S, Boddenberg M, Bontempo F, Borowka J, Böser S, Botner O, Böttcher J, Bourbeau E, Bradascio F, Braun J, Bron S, Brostean-Kaiser J, Browne S, Burgman A, Burley RT, Busse RS, Campana MA, Carnie-Bronca EG, Chen C, Chen Z, Chirkin D, Choi K, Clark BA, Clark K, Classen L, Coleman A, Collin GH, Conrad JM, Coppin P, Correa P, Cowen DF, Cross R, Dappen C, Dave P, De Clercq C, DeLaunay JJ, Dembinski H, Deoskar K, Desai A, Desiati P, de Vries KD, de Wasseige G, de With M, DeYoung T, Dharani S, Diaz A, Díaz-Vélez JC, Dittmer M, Dujmovic H, Dunkman M, DuVernois MA, Dvorak E, Ehrhardt T, Eller P, Engel R, Erpenbeck H, Evans J, Evenson PA, Fan KL, Fazely AR, Feigl N, Fiedlschuster S, Fienberg AT, Filimonov K, Finley C, Fischer L, Fox D, Franckowiak A, Friedman E, Fritz A, Fürst P, Gaisser TK, Gallagher J, Ganster E, Garcia A, Garrappa S, Gerhardt L, Ghadimi A, Glaser C, Glauch T, Glüsenkamp T, Gonzalez JG, Goswami S, Grant D, Grégoire T, Griswold S, Gündüz M, Günther C, Haack C, Hallgren A, Halliday R, Halve L, Halzen F, Ha Minh M, Hanson K, Hardin J, Harnisch AA, Haungs A, Hauser S, Hebecker D, Helbing K, Henningsen F, Hettinger EC, Hickford S, Hignight J, Hill C, Hill GC, Hoffman KD, Hoffmann R, Hoinka T, Hokanson-Fasig B, Hoshina K, Huang F, Huber M, Huber T, Hultqvist K, Hünnefeld M, Hussain R, In S, Iovine N, Ishihara A, Jansson M, Japaridze GS, Jeong M, Jones BJP, Kang D, Kang W, Kang X, Kappes A, Kappesser D, Karg T, Karl M, Karle A, Katz U, Kauer M, Kellermann M, Kelley JL, Kheirandish A, Kin K, Kintscher T, Kiryluk J, Klein SR, Koirala R, Kolanoski H, Kontrimas T, Köpke L, Kopper C, Kopper S, Koskinen DJ, Koundal P, Kovacevich M, Kowalski M, Kozynets T, Kun E, Kurahashi N, Lad N, Lagunas Gualda C, Lanfranchi JL, Larson MJ, Lauber F, Lazar JP, Lee JW, Leonard K, Leszczyńska A, Li Y, Lincetto M, Liu QR, Liubarska M, Lohfink E, Lozano Mariscal CJ, Lu L, Lucarelli F, Ludwig A, Luszczak W, Lyu Y, Ma WY, Madsen J, Mahn KBM, Makino Y, Mancina S, Mariş IC, Maruyama R, Mase K, McElroy T, McNally F, Mead JV, Meagher K, Mechbal S, Medina A, Meier M, Meighen-Berger S, Micallef J, Mockler D, Montaruli T, Moore RW, Morse R, Moulai M, Naab R, Nagai R, Naumann U, Necker J, Nguyễn LV, Niederhausen H, Nisa MU, Nowicki SC, Obertacke Pollmann A, Oehler M, Oeyen B, Olivas A, O'Sullivan E, Pandya H, Pankova DV, Park N, Parker GK, Paudel EN, Paul L, Pérez de Los Heros C, Peters L, Peterson J, Philippen S, Pieloth D, Pieper S, Pittermann M, Pizzuto A, Plum M, Popovych Y, Porcelli A, Prado Rodriguez M, Price PB, Pries B, Przybylski GT, Raab C, Raissi A, Rameez M, Rawlins K, Rea IC, Rehman A, Reichherzer P, Reimann R, Renzi G, Resconi E, Reusch S, Rhode W, Richman M, Riedel B, Roberts EJ, Robertson S, Roellinghoff G, Rongen M, Rott C, Ruhe T, Ryckbosch D, Rysewyk Cantu D, Safa I, Saffer J, Sanchez Herrera SE, Sandrock A, Sandroos J, Santander M, Sarkar S, Sarkar S, Satalecka K, Scharf M, Schaufel M, Schieler H, Schindler S, Schlunder P, Schmidt T, Schneider A, Schneider J, Schröder FG, Schumacher L, Schwefer G, Sclafani S, Seckel D, Seunarine S, Sharma A, Shefali S, Silva M, Skrzypek B, Smithers B, Snihur R, Soedingrekso J, Soldin D, Spannfellner C, Spiczak GM, Spiering C, Stachurska J, Stamatikos M, Stanev T, Stein R, Stettner J, Steuer A, Stezelberger T, Stürwald T, Stuttard T, Sullivan GW, Taboada I, Tenholt F, Ter-Antonyan S, Tilav S, Tischbein F, Tollefson K, Tomankova L, Tönnis C, Toscano S, Tosi D, Trettin A, Tselengidou M, Tung CF, Turcati A, Turcotte R, Turley CF, Twagirayezu JP, Ty B, Unland Elorrieta MA, Valtonen-Mattila N, Vandenbroucke J, van Eijndhoven N, Vannerom D, van Santen J, Verpoest S, Walck C, Watson TB, Weaver C, Weigel P, Weindl A, Weiss MJ, Weldert J, Wendt C, Werthebach J, Weyrauch M, Whitehorn N, Wiebusch CH, Williams DR, Wolf M, Woschnagg K, Wrede G, Wulff J, Xu XW, Yanez JP, Yoshida S, Yu S, Yuan T, Zhang Z. Search for Relativistic Magnetic Monopoles with Eight Years of IceCube Data. Phys Rev Lett 2022; 128:051101. [PMID: 35179913 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.051101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 01/05/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We present an all-sky 90% confidence level upper limit on the cosmic flux of relativistic magnetic monopoles using 2886 days of IceCube data. The analysis was optimized for monopole speeds between 0.750c and 0.995c, without any explicit restriction on the monopole mass. We constrain the flux of relativistic cosmic magnetic monopoles to a level below 2.0×10^{-19} cm^{-2} s^{-1} sr^{-1} over the majority of the targeted speed range. This result constitutes the most strict upper limit to date for magnetic monopoles with β≳0.8 and up to β∼0.995 and fills the gap between existing limits on the cosmic flux of nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles.
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- R Abbasi
- Department of Physics, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60660, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- Science Faculty CP230, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Department of Physics, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53201, USA
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Science Faculty CP230, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
- Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Fakultät für Physik and Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Département de physique nucléaire et corpusculaire, Université de Genève, CH-1211 Genève, Switzerland
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York 11794-3800, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Engineering Physics, and Astronomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- School of Physics and Center for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Dienst ELEM, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Institut für Kernphysik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, D-48149 Münster, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Physics Department, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, South Dakota 57701, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Experimental Particle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, Southern University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Oskar Klein Centre and Department of Physics, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Fakultät für Physik and Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
- DESY, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Institute of Physics, University of Mainz, Staudinger Weg 7, D-55099 Mainz, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
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- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Bartol Research Institute and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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- Fakultät für Physik and Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, Box 516, S-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Astroparticle Physics, D-76021 Karlsruhe, Germany
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- III. Physikalisches Institut, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Physik-department, Technische Universität München, D-85748 Garching, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E1, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Institute for Global Prominent Research, Chiba University, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
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- Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Wuppertal, D-42119 Wuppertal, Germany
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- Department of Physics, TU Dortmund University, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
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