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Soft rot enterobacterial plant pathogens Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. have caused devastating blackleg, aerial stem rot, and soft rot of potato tubers (Charkowski 2018). In August 2021, potato plants (cv. Xisen6# or Maiken1) with blackleg or aerial stem rot symptoms were observed in two commercial fields in Xinghe County, Ulanqab City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. The plants were wilted, and the crown stem showed gradual degradation and browning. The disease incidence was around 3 to 7% and 20 to 25% in Xinghe Zhangyou Village (33 ha) and Bianjia Village (7 ha), respectively. Pathogens were isolated on crystal violet pectate agar (CVP) plates (Ge et al. 2018). Briefly, symptomatic stem tissues were surface sterilized in 75% ethanol, ground, then serial dilutions were cultured on CVP plates (Handique et al. 2022). The plates were incubated at 28oC for 2 days. Pure colonies of Pectobacterium spp. were obtained from the pits of CVP plates and sequenced for identification using the universal 16S rRNA gene primers 27F/1492R (Monciardini et al. 2002). Results of the comparison of 16S sequences against NCBI GenBank showed 100% sequence identity to P. parvum FN20211T (CP087392.1) type strain for the three colonies designated as ZRIMU1006 (1542/1542 bp), ZRIMU1019 (1542/1542 bp), and ZRIMU1020 (1542/1542 bp). Sequences were deposited under accession numbers OP941529, OP941525, OP941526, respectively. Additionally, six housekeeping gene sequences were used to confirm identification at the species level and were uploaded to GenBank: fusA (OP793177, OP793171, OP793172), gapA (OP793221, OP793216, OP793217), gyrB (OP793265, OP793259, OP793260), infB (OP793310, OP793304, OP793305), pgi (OP793355, OP793349, OP793350), and rplB (OP793400, OP793394, OP793395). Phylogenetic trees constructed using the MEGA X program of concatenated sequences of the housekeeping genes sequences show that the three isolates grouped with P. parvam FN20211T, confirming that they are P. parvam. Pathogenicity tests for stem rot were done by injecting a bacterial suspension into potato seedlings (cv. Favorita) grown from seed tubers. The tubers were planted in perlite potting mix and 3 weeks after emergence, a 100 µl bacterial suspension (105 CFU/ml) or sterile phosphate-buffered solution was injected at the stem base. The bacterial injection experiment was performed twice in a greenhouse with five plants inoculated per bacterial strain. Plants were covered with plastic bags to maintain 100% humidity at 25°C for 2 days. Seven days after inoculation, the inoculated area of the seedlings had rotted or turned black, while the controls remained symptomless. Symptomatic tissues from each strain were processed as above and placed on CVP plates to reisolate the Pectobacterium spp. 16S rRNA sequence analysis confirmed the bacteria to be similar in sequence to the inoculated strains, thus completing Koch's postulates. Soft rot development was performed by adding bacterial suspension (100 µl, 105 CFU/ml) on tuber slices. The infected tubers rotted, while the controls were symptomless. The vacuum infiltration method on tuber that is used to test pathogens for blackleg did not result in the development of blackleg symptoms. Briefly, five tubers were inoculated with the pathogen by vacuum infiltration and planted in potting mix. The plants showed wilting after emergence, but no blackleg symptoms were observed. Recently, multiple new Pectobacterium species including P. parmentieri, P. polaris, and P. punjabense, were identified to cause potato disease in different provinces of China (Cao et al. 2021; Handique et al. 2022). In China, P. parvum was first isolated from Brassica, and in the year 2022, it was reported to cause aerial stem-rot on potato in Hebei province in China (Wang et al. 2022). Inner Mongolia is a major potato-seed-producing province and the incidence of new strains of Pectobacterium in the province causing aerial stem rot and soft rot of tuber might cause a reduction in seed production. This report will draw attention to the management of P. parvum by the seed-producing companies in Inner Mongolia which distributes the seed throughout China.
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Objective To investigate the exposure to stroke risk factors, the proportion of high?risk individuals, and the relationship between risk factor exposure and impaired cerebrovascular hemodynamics in patients at Pu'er People's Hospital. Methods Between April 2014 and June 2017, this study enrolled inpatients and outpatients of the neurology department of Pu'er People's Hospital who underwent cerebrovascular hemodynamic examinations to evaluate stroke risk. A total of 30 103 (12 793 males and 17 310 females) participants aged 22 to 99 (53.3±14.5) years were included. The distribution of exposure rates for stroke risk factors and proportion of high?risk individuals were determined according to age and sex. The relationships between integral scores of cerebrovascular hemodynamics and exposure to risk factors were also analyzed. Results Exposure rates for risk factors of hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, heart disease, stroke family history, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and overweight or obesity in males were 36.6%, 11.4%, 8.8%, 5.9%, 7.0%, 41.6%, 37.8%, and 51.4%, respectively. The exposure rates in females were 31.2%, 11.3%, 7.6%, 5.5%, 6.8%, 0.7%, 1.6%, and 48.8%, respectively. Differences between age groups for all risk factors were significant (P<0.01). Exposure rates for hypertension, diabetes, cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and overweight or obesity in males were significantly higher than in females (P<0.01). High?risk males and females accounted for 41.8% and 35.6% (χ2=119.82, P<0.01) and the rates in both groups increased significantly with age (χ2=1 838.2, 2 881.5, P<0.01). Risk factors including age, hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, heart disease, stroke family history, alcohol drinking, and body mass index were independent predictors of increased individual risk of stroke. Conclusions Exposure levels for stroke risk factors and the proportion of individuals at high risk of stroke were relatively high in the hospital population. Cerebrovascular dysfunction is closely related to exposure to common risk factors for stroke.
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Objective To investigate the difference between Han nationality residents and the Hani nationality residents in southern Yunnan about the effects of stroke risk factors on cerebral vascular hemodynamic indicators.Methods In the cohort crowds,Hani nationality outpatient patients were selected as the Hani nationality group,the Han nationality outpatient patients with the same gender and similar age were randomly selected as the Han nationality group with the ratio of nearly 1 ∶ 3.The risk factors of stroke and the differences of the hemodynamic indicators were compared between the two groups.Results The dyslipidemia proportion of the Hani nationality group was lower than that of the Han nationality group [48 cases (11.5 ％) vs.257 cases (17.5 ％),x2 =8.867,P =0.003],and the drinking proportion of the Hani nationality group was higher than that of the Han nationality group [79 cases (18.9％) vs.214 cases(14.6％),x2 =4.498,P =0.034],the other risk factors exposure rates had no statistically significant differences between the two groups (all P ＞ 0.05).The ratio of numbers of cerebral vascular hemodynamic indicators below 75 points(optimum truncation points) in the Hani nationality group and the Han nationality group were 30.3％ and 31.9％,respectively,the proportion of the two groups of integral value distribution had statistically significant difference (x2 =12.614,P ＜ 0.01);Vmean (left:t =0.632,P =0.527;right:t =0.642,P =0.532),Vmin (left:t =-0.349,P =0.727;right:t =-0.540,P =0.589),Wv(left:t =0.297,P =0.767;right:t =1.119,P =0.263),Zcv(left:t =0.297,P =0.767;right:t =1.247,P =0.213),Rv(left:t =0.837,P =0.403;right:t =1.222,P =0.222),DR(left:t =0.720,P =0.482;right:t =0.396,P =0.692),Cp(left:t =0.614,P =0.539;right:t =1.486,P =0.138) and other indicators of the two groups had no statistically significant differences.Conclusion The Hani nationality residents'stroke risk factors and CVHI integral distribution in different age groups are different from Han people in southern Yunnan.
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Objective To improve the diagnosis and treatment of primary duodenal malignant (neoplasms)(PDMN).Methods The clinical data of 19 patients with primary malignant neoplasms of the (duodenum) were anayzed retrospectively.Results The clinical manifestations were jaudice in 9 cases, upper abdominal pain in 7 cases, gastrointestinal hemorrhage in 6 cases,abdominal mass in 3 cases,and vomitting in 1 case. Diagnostic procedure and detection rate: The detection rate of PDMN by duodenoscopy was 83.3%(15/18), by hypotonic duodenography was 82.3%(14/17), 77.8%(7/9) by CT, and 1 case by MRI.16 cases (underwent) surgery with resection rate of 68.8 %(11/16).Pancreaticoduodenectomy was (performed) in 9 (cases), simple tumor resection and regional lymphadenectomy in 1 case,resection of duodenal bulb plus partial gastrectomy in 1 case,and gastroenterostomy or choledochojejunostomy in 5 cases.The radical resection rate was 62.5%(10/16).The postoperative 1-,3-,and 5-year survival rate in radical (resection) (patients) was 90.0%(9/10),40.0%(4/10) and 30.0%(3/10),respectively.In those with (gastroenterostomy) or (choledochojejunostomy), the survival time was 6~15 months. Conclusions (Duodenoscopy) and hypotonic (duodenography) are ideal tools for the diagnosis of all locations of PDMN.(Pancreaticoduodenectomy) might result in prolonged survival of patients with PDMN.
