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Existing panoramic layout estimation solutions tend to recover room boundaries from a vertically compressed sequence, yielding imprecise results as the compression process often muddles the semantics between various planes. Besides, these data-driven approaches impose an urgent demand for massive data annotations, which are laborious and time-consuming. For the first problem, we propose an orthogonal plane disentanglement network (termed DOPNet) to distinguish ambiguous semantics. DOPNet consists of three modules that are integrated to deliver distortion-free, semantics-clean, and detail-sharp disentangled representations, which benefit the subsequent layout recovery. For the second problem, we present an unsupervised adaptation technique tailored for horizon-depth and ratio representations. Concretely, we introduce an optimization strategy for decision-level layout analysis and a 1D cost volume construction method for feature-level multi-view aggregation, both of which are designed to fully exploit the geometric consistency across multiple perspectives. The optimizer provides a reliable set of pseudo-labels for network training, while the 1D cost volume enriches each view with comprehensive scene information derived from other perspectives. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our solution outperforms other SoTA models on both monocular layout estimation and multi-view layout estimation tasks.
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Determining the distribution trends, transport mechanisms, and ecological risks of heavy metals (HMs) in urban river sediments is essential for the government to conduct appropriate remediation work. In this study, we collected sediment cores from the Yayao Waterway in Foshan City, China. The vertical distribution profiles of dissolved and labile Fe, Mn, Cd, Zn, Cu, Cr, Ni, Pb, As, and Co in the sediments were obtained using the thin-film diffusive gradient (DGT) and high-resolution peeper (HR-Peeper) techniques. In addition, the transport rates, contamination levels, and ecological concerns of the HMs were evaluated using the European Community Bureau of Reference (BCR) sequential extraction technique, the DGT-induced sediment fluxes (DIFS) model, and multiple contamination evaluation metrics. The results showed that most of the DGT-labile HMs were associated with Fe/Mn (hydrogen) oxides, and in particular, Zn, Ni, and Cr showed a significant negative correlation with Fe/Mn (p < 0.001). Additionally, Cd had the highest bioavailability (89.17%), and its net diffusive flux at the sediment-water interface (SWI) was positive, which indicated a high release risk from the sediment. However, the R-value of Cd based on the DGT-induced sediment fluxes (DIFS) operation was extremely low, suggesting that although Cd had the biggest supply pool of releases, its release rate was slow. The majority of sampling sites had significantly higher total HM contents in the surface sediments than the background values. The HM contamination in the sediments originated from human activities, primarily from industrial enterprises and with a large contribution from both agricultural and domestic sources. The most polluted HM with the highest ecological danger was Cd, followed by Cu, Zn, Ni, and As when the results of the four pollution evaluation indicators were combined. Consequently, the risk of contamination by HMs in inner-city river sediments should receive more attention.
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Thin-plate spline (TPS) is a principal warp that allows for representing elastic, nonlinear transformation with control point motions. With the increase of control points, the warp becomes increasingly flexible but usually encounters a bottleneck caused by undesired issues, e.g., content distortion. In this paper, we explore generic applications of TPS in single-image-based warping tasks, such as rotation correction, rectangling, and portrait correction. To break this bottleneck, we propose the coupled thin-plate spline model (CoupledTPS), which iteratively couples multiple TPS with limited control points into a more flexible and powerful transformation. Concretely, we first design an iterative search to predict new control points according to the current latent condition. Then, we present the warping flow as a bridge for the coupling of different TPS transformations, effectively eliminating interpolation errors caused by multiple warps. Besides, in light of the laborious annotation cost, we develop a semi-supervised learning scheme to improve warping quality by exploiting unlabeled data. It is formulated through dual transformation between the searched control points of unlabeled data and its graphic augmentation, yielding an implicit correction consistency constraint. Finally, we collect massive unlabeled data to exhibit the benefit of our semi-supervised scheme in rotation correction. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority and universality of CoupledTPS over the existing state-of-the-art (SoTA) solutions for rotation correction and beyond. The code and data will be available at https://github.com/nie-lang/CoupledTPS.
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In cancer treatment, radiation therapy (RT) induces direct tumor cell death due to DNA damage, but it also enhances the deaths of radiosensitive immune cells and is followed by local relapse and up-regulation of immune checkpoint ligand PD-L1. Since the binding between PD-1 and PD-L1 curtails anti-tumor immunities, combining RT and PD-L1 inhibitor, anti-PD-L1, is a potential method to improve the treatment efficacy by RT. Some experiments support this hypothesis by showing that the combination of ionizing irradiation (IR) and anti-PD-L1 improves tumor reduction comparing to the monotherapy of IR or anti-PD-L1. In this work, we create a simplified ODE model to study the order of tumor growths under treatments of IR and anti-PD-L1. Our synergy analysis indicates that both IR and anti-PD-L1 improve the tumor reduction of each other, when IR and anti-PD-L1 are given simultaneously. When giving IR and anti-PD-L1 separately, a high dosage of IR should be given first to efficiently reduce tumor load and then followed by anti-PD-L1 with strong efficacy to maintain the tumor reduction and slow down the relapse. Increasing the duration of anti-PD-L1 improves the tumor reduction, but it cannot prolong the duration that tumor relapses to the level of the control case. Under some simplification, we also prove that the model has an unstable tumor free equilibrium and a locally asymptotically stable tumor persistent equilibrium. Our bifurcation diagram reveals a transition from tumor elimination to tumor persistence, as the tumor growth rate increases. In the tumor persistent case, both anti-PD-L1 and IR can reduce tumor amount in the long term.
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Neoplasias , Neoplasias/imunologia , Neoplasias/radioterapia , Neoplasias/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Antígeno B7-H1/antagonistas & inibidores , Inibidores de Checkpoint Imunológico/uso terapêutico , Inibidores de Checkpoint Imunológico/farmacologia , Conceitos Matemáticos , Modelos TeóricosRESUMO
AIMS: Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia (CRKP) is a global threat that varies by region. The global distribution, evolution, and clinical implications of the ST11 CRKP clone remain obscure. METHODS: We conducted a multicenter molecular epidemiological survey using isolates obtained from 28 provinces and municipalities across China between 2011 and 2021. We integrated sequences from public databases and performed genetic epidemiology analysis of ST11 CRKP. RESULTS: Among ST11 CRKP, KL64 serotypes exhibited considerable expansion, increasing from 1.54% to 46.08% between 2011 and 2021. Combining our data with public databases, the phylogenetic and phylogeography analyses indicated that ST11 CRKP appeared in the Americas in 1996 and spread worldwide, with key clones progressing from China's southeastern coast to the inland by 2010. Global phylogenetic analysis showed that ST11 KL64 CRKP has evolved to a virulent, resistant clade with notable regional spread. Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis identified BMPPS (bmr3, mltC, pyrB, ppsC, and sdaC) as a key marker for this clade. The BMPPS SNP clade is associated with high mortality and has strong anti-phagocytic and competitive traits in vitro. CONCLUSIONS: The high-risk ST11 KL64 CRKP subclone showed strong expansion potential and survival advantages, probably owing to genetic factors.
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Antibacterianos , Infecções por Klebsiella , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Filogenia , Humanos , China/epidemiologia , Klebsiella pneumoniae/genética , Klebsiella pneumoniae/efeitos dos fármacos , Klebsiella pneumoniae/isolamento & purificação , Infecções por Klebsiella/epidemiologia , Infecções por Klebsiella/microbiologia , Infecções por Klebsiella/transmissão , Infecções por Klebsiella/tratamento farmacológico , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Polimorfismo de Nucleotídeo Único , Enterobacteriáceas Resistentes a Carbapenêmicos/genética , Enterobacteriáceas Resistentes a Carbapenêmicos/efeitos dos fármacos , Enterobacteriáceas Resistentes a Carbapenêmicos/isolamento & purificação , Epidemiologia Molecular , Carbapenêmicos/farmacologia , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Filogeografia , Sorogrupo , Genômica/métodosRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: Preservation fluid (PF) contaminations are common in conventional liver transplantation (CLT) and presumably originate from organ or PF exposures to the external environment in a non-strict sterile manner. Such exposures and PF contamination may be avoided in ischaemia-free liver transplantation (IFLT) because of the strict sterile surgical procedures. In this study, the authors evaluated the impact of IFLT on organ PF contamination. METHODS: A post-hoc analysis using data from the first randomized controlled trial of IFLT was performed to compare the incidence, pathogenic spectrum of PF contamination, and incidence of early recipient infection between IFLT and CLT. Multivariable logistic regression was used to explore risk factors for PF contamination. RESULTS: Of the 68 cases recruited in the trial, 64 were included in this post-hoc analysis. The incidence of culture-positive PF was 9.4% (3/32) in the IFLT group versus 78.1% (25/32) in the CLT group ( P <0.001). Three microorganisms were isolated from PF in the IFLT group, while 43 were isolated in the CLT group. The recipient infection rate within postoperative day 14 was 3.1% (1/32) in the IFLT group vs 15.6% (5/32) in the CLT group, although this difference did not reach statistical significance ( P =0.196). Multivariate analysis revealed that adopting IFLT is an independent protective factor for culture-positive PF. CONCLUSION: PF contamination is substantially decreased in IFLT, and IFLT application is an independent protective factor for PF contamination. Using rigorous sterile measures and effective antibiotic therapy during IFLT may decrease PF contamination.
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Transplante de Fígado , Soluções para Preservação de Órgãos , Preservação de Órgãos , Humanos , Transplante de Fígado/efeitos adversos , Masculino , Feminino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Preservação de Órgãos/métodos , Adulto , IdosoRESUMO
OBJECTIVES: Resistance against ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) in carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA) is emerging. This study was aimed at detecting the prevalence and molecular characteristics of CZA-resistant CRPA clinical isolates in Guangdong Province, China. METHODS: The antimicrobial susceptibility profile of these strains was determined. A subset of 16 CZA-resistant CRPA isolates was analysed by whole-genome sequencing (WGS). Genetic surroundings of carbapenem resistance genes and pan-genome-wide association analysis were further studied. RESULTS: Of the 250 CRPA isolates, CZA resistance rate was 6.4% (16/250). The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) of CZA range was from 0.25 to >256 mg/L. MIC50 and MIC90 were 2/4 and 8/4 mg/L, respectively. Among the 16 CZA-resistant CRPA strains, 31.3% (5/16) of them carried class B carbapenem resistance genes, including blaIMP-4, blaIMP-45, and blaVIM-2, located on IncP-2 megaplasmids or chromosomes, respectively. Pan-genome-wide association analysis of accessory genes for CZA-susceptible or -resistant CRPA isolates showed that PA1874, a hypothetical protein containing BapA prefix-like domain, was enriched in CZA-resistant group significantly. CONCLUSIONS: Class B carbapenem resistance genes play important roles in CZA resistance. Meanwhile, the PA1874 gene may be a novel mechanism involving in CZA resistance. It is necessary to continually monitor CZA-resistant CRPA isolates.
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Antibacterianos , Compostos Azabicíclicos , Ceftazidima , Infecções por Pseudomonas , Humanos , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Antibacterianos/uso terapêutico , Pseudomonas aeruginosa , Prevalência , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Infecções por Pseudomonas/epidemiologia , Infecções por Pseudomonas/tratamento farmacológico , Carbapenêmicos/farmacologia , Combinação de MedicamentosRESUMO
PURPOSE: Blood culture (BC) remains the gold standard for the diagnosis of bloodstream infections. Improving the quality of clinical BC samples, optimizing BC performance, and accelerating antimicrobial susceptibility test (AST) results are essential for the early detection of bloodstream infections and specific treatments. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective multicenter study using 450,845 BC specimens from clinical laboratories obtained from 19 teaching hospitals between 1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021. We evaluated key performance indicators (KPIs), turnaround times (TATs), and frequency distributions of processing in BC specimens. We also evaluated the AST results of clinically significant isolates for four different laboratory workflow styles. RESULTS: Across the 10 common bacterial isolates (n = 16,865) and yeast isolates (n = 1011), the overall median (interquartile range) TATs of AST results were 2.67 (2.05-3.31) and 3.73 (2.98-4.64) days, respectively. The specimen collections mainly occurred between 06:00 and 24:00, and specimen reception and loadings mainly between 08:00 and 24:00. Based on the laboratory workflows of the BCs, 16 of the 19 hospitals were divided into four groups. Time to results (TTRs) from specimen collection to the AST reports were 2.35 (1.95-3.06), 2.61 (1.98-3.32), 2.99 (2.60-3.87), and 3.25 (2.80-3.98) days for groups I, II, III, and IV, respectively. CONCLUSION: This study shows the related BC KPIs and workflows in different Chinese hospitals, suggesting that laboratory workflow optimization can play important roles in shortening time to AST reports and initiation of appropriate timely treatment.
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Laboratórios , Sepse , Humanos , Hemocultura , Laboratórios Clínicos , Fatores de Tempo , Hospitais de Ensino , Sepse/diagnósticoRESUMO
Candida auris is an emerging multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen worldwide. To date, it has not been reported in Guangdong, China. For the first time, we reported 7 cases of C. auris candidemia from two hospitals in Guangdong. The clinical and microbiological characteristics of these cases were investigated carefully. Two geographic clades, i.e. III and I, were found popular in different hospitals by whole genome sequencing analyses. All C. auris isolates from bloodstream were resistant to fluconazole, 5 of which belonged to Clade III harbouring VF125AL mutation in the ERG11 gene. The isolates with Clade I presented Y132F mutation in the ERG11 gene as well as resistance to amphotericin B. All isolates exhibited strong biofilm-forming capacity and non-aggregative phenotype. The mean time from admission to onset of C. auris candidemia was 39.4 days (range: 12 - 80 days). Despite performing appropriate therapeutic regimen, 42.9% (3/7) of patients experienced occurrences of C. auris candidemia and colonization after the first positive bloodstream. C. auris colonization was still observed after the first C. auris candidemia for 81 days in some patient. Microbiologic eradication from bloodstream was achieved in 85.7% (6/7) of patients at discharge. In conclusion, this study offers a crucial insight into unravelling the multiple origins of C. auris in Guangdong, highlighting great challenges in clinical prevention and control.
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Candidemia , Humanos , Candidemia/tratamento farmacológico , Candidemia/epidemiologia , Candidemia/microbiologia , Antifúngicos/farmacologia , Antifúngicos/uso terapêutico , Candida auris , Candida , Farmacorresistência Fúngica/genética , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , China/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Chronic pulmonary infection caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a common lung disease with high mortality, posing severe threats to public health. Highly resistant biofilm and intrinsic resistance make P. aeruginosa hard to eradicate, while powerful virulence system of P. aeruginosa may give rise to the recurrence of infection and eventual failure of antibiotic therapy. To address these issues, infection-microenvironment responsive nanoparticles functioning on biofilm eradication and virulence inhibition were simply prepared by electrostatic complexation between dimethylmaleic anhydride (DA) modified negatively charged coating and epsilon-poly(l-lysine) derived cationic nanoparticles loaded with azithromycin (AZI) (DA-AZI NPs). Charge reversal responsive to acidic condition enabled DA-AZI NPs to successively penetrate through both mucus and biofilms, followed by targeting to P. aeruginosa and permeabilizing its outer/inner membrane. Then in situ released AZI, which was induced by the lipase-triggered NPs dissociation, could easily enter into bacteria to take effects. DA-AZI NPs exhibited enhanced eradication activity against P. aeruginosa biofilms with a decrease of >99.999% of bacterial colonies, as well as remarkable inhibitory effects on the production of virulence factors and bacteria re-adhesion & biofilm re-formation. In a chronic pulmonary infection model, nebulization of DA-AZI NPs into infected mice resulted in prolonged retention and increased accumulation of the NPs in the infected sites of the lungs. Moreover, they significantly reduced the burden of P. aeruginosa, effectively alleviating lung tissue damages and inflammation. Overall, the proposed DA-AZI NPs highlight an innovative strategy for treating chronic pulmonary infection.
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Nanopartículas , Pneumonia , Animais , Camundongos , Virulência , Antibacterianos , Biofilmes , Azitromicina/farmacologia , Pulmão , Pseudomonas aeruginosaRESUMO
Interleukin-27 (IL-27) is known to play opposing roles in immunology. The present paper considers, specifically, the role IL-27 plays in cancer immunotherapy when combined with immune checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD-1. We first develop a mathematical model for this combination therapy, by a system of Partial Differential Equations, and show agreement with experimental results in mice injected with melanoma cells. We then proceed to simulate tumor volume with IL-27 injection at a variable dose F and anti-PD-1 at a variable dose g. We show that in some range of "small" values of g, as f increases tumor volume decreases as long as f
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Interleucina-27 , Melanoma , Animais , Camundongos , Interleucina-27/uso terapêutico , Melanoma/patologia , Terapia Combinada , Modelos Teóricos , Imunoterapia/métodosRESUMO
Image outpainting gains increasing attention since it can generate the complete scene from a partial view, providing a valuable solution to construct 360° panoramic images. As image outpainting suffers from the intrinsic issue of unidirectional completion flow, previous methods convert the original problem into inpainting, which allows a bidirectional flow. However, we find that inpainting has its own limitations and is inferior to outpainting in certain situations. The question of how they may be combined for the best of both has as yet remained under-explored. In this paper, we provide a deep analysis of the differences between inpainting and outpainting, which essentially depends on how the source pixels contribute to the unknown regions under different spatial arrangements. Motivated by this analysis, we present a Cylin-Painting framework that involves meaningful collaborations between inpainting and outpainting and efficiently fuses the different arrangements, with a view to leveraging their complementary benefits on a seamless cylinder. Nevertheless, straightforwardly applying the cylinder-style convolution often generates visually unpleasing results as it discards important positional information. To address this issue, we further present a learnable positional embedding strategy to incorporate the missing component of positional encoding into the cylinder convolution, which significantly improves the panoramic results. It is noted that while developed for image outpainting, the proposed algorithm can be effectively extended to other panoramic vision tasks, such as object detection, depth estimation, and image super-resolution. Code will be made available at https://github.com/KangLiao929/Cylin-Painting.
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BACKGROUND: Candida glabrata is an important cause of invasive candidiasis. Echinocandins are the first-line treatment of invasive candidiasis caused by C. glabrata. The epidemiological echinocandin sensitivity requires long-term surveillance and the understanding about whole genome characteristics of echinocandin non-susceptible isolates was limited. RESULTS: The present study investigated the echinocandin susceptibility of 1650 C. glabrata clinical isolates in China from August 2014 to July 2019. The in vitro activity of micafungin was significantly better than those of caspofungin and anidulafungin (P < 0.001), assessed by MIC50/90 values. Whole genome sequencing was conducted on non-susceptible isolates and geography-matched susceptible isolates. Thirteen isolates (0.79%) were resistant to at least one echinocandin. Six isolates (0.36%) were solely intermediate to caspofungin. Common evolutionary analysis of echinocandin-resistant and echinocandin-intermediate isolates revealed genes related with reduced caspofungin sensitivity, including previously identified sphinganine hydroxylase encoding gene SUR2. Genome-wide association study identified SNPs at subtelometric regions that were associated with echinocandin non-susceptibility. In-host evolution of echinocandin resistance of serial isolates revealed an enrichment for non-synonymous mutations in adhesins genes and loss of subtelometric regions containing adhesin genes. CONCLUSIONS: The echinocandins are highly active against C. glabrata in China with a resistant rate of 0.79%. Echinocandin non-susceptible isolates carried common evolved genes which are related with reduced caspofungin sensitivity. In-host evolution of C. glabrata accompanied intensive changing of adhesins profile.
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Candidíase Invasiva , Equinocandinas , Humanos , Equinocandinas/farmacologia , Equinocandinas/genética , Equinocandinas/uso terapêutico , Candida glabrata/genética , Caspofungina/farmacologia , Antifúngicos/farmacologia , Antifúngicos/uso terapêutico , Estudo de Associação Genômica Ampla , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Candidíase Invasiva/tratamento farmacológico , China , Farmacorresistência Fúngica/genéticaRESUMO
Background: The emergence of ceftazidime-avibactam (CZA) resistance among carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) is of major concern due to limited therapeutic options. Methods: In this study, 10 CRKP strains were isolated from different samples of a patient with CRKP infection receiving CZA treatment. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) and conjugation experiments were performed to determine the transferability of the carbapenem resistance gene. Results: This infection began with a KPC-2-producing K. pneumoniae (CZA MIC = 2 µg/mL, imipenem MIC ≥ 16 µg/mL). After 20 days of CZA treatment, the strains switched to the amino acid substitution of T263A caused by a novel KPC-producing gene, blaKPC-145, which restored carbapenem susceptibility but showed CZA resistance (CZA MIC ≥ 256 µg/mL, imipenem MIC = 1 µg/mL). The blaKPC-145 gene was located on a 148,185-bp untransformable IncFII-type plasmid. The subsequent use of carbapenem against KPC-145-producing K. pneumoniae infection led to a reversion of KPC-2 production (CZA MIC = 2 µg/mL, imipenem MIC ≥ 16 µg/mL). WGS analysis showed that all isolates belonged to ST11-KL47, and the number of SNPs was 14. This implied that these blaKPC-positive K. pneumoniae isolates might originate from a single clone and have been colonized for a long time during the 120-day treatment period. Conclusion: This is the first report of CZA resistance caused by blaKPC-145, which emerged during the treatment with CZA against blaKPC-2-positive K. pneumoniae-associated infection in China. These findings indicated that routine testing for antibiotic susceptibility and carbapenemase genotype is essential during CZA treatment.
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Enterobacteriáceas Resistentes a Carbapenêmicos , Farmacorresistência Bacteriana , Infecções por Klebsiella , Klebsiella pneumoniae , Humanos , Substituição de Aminoácidos , Carbapenêmicos , Imipenem , Infecções por Klebsiella/tratamento farmacológicoRESUMO
The CD200 is a cell membrane protein expressed by tumor cells, and its receptor CD200 receptor (CD200R) is expressed by immune cells including macrophages and dendritic cells. The formation of CD200-CD200R inhibits the cellular functions of the targeted immune cells, so CD200 is one type of the immune checkpoint and blockade CD200-CD200R formation is a potential cancer treatment. However, the CD200 blockade has opposite treatment outcomes in different types of cancers. For instance, the CD200R deficient mice have a higher tumor load than the wild type (WT) mice in melanoma suggesting that CD200-CD200R inhibits melanoma. On the other hand, the antibody anti-CD200 treatment in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) significantly reduces the tumor load indicating that CD200-CD200R promotes PDAC and HNSCC. In this work, we hypothesize that different mechanisms of CD200-CD200R in tumor microenvironment could be one of the reasons for the diverse treatment outcomes of CD200 blockade in different types of cancers. We create one Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) model for melanoma including the inhibition of CCL8 and regulatory T cells and the switching from M2 to M1 macrophages by CD200-CD200R to capture the tumor inhibition by CD200-CD200R. We also create another ODEs model for PDAC and HNSCC including the promotion of the polarization and suppressive activities of M2 macrophages by CD200-CD200R to generate the tumor promotion by CD200-CD200R. Furthermore, we use these two models to investigate the treatment efficacy of the combination treatment between the CD200-CD200R blockade and the other immune checkpoint inhibitor, anti-PD-1. Our result shows that different mechanisms of CD200-CD200R can induce different treatment outcomes in combination treatments, namely, only the CD200-CD200R blockade reduces tumor load in melanoma and only the anti-PD-1 and CD200 knockout decrease tumor load in PDAC and HNSCC. Moreover, in melanoma, the CD200-CD200R mainly utilizes the inhibitions on M1 macrophages and dendritic cells to inhibit tumor growth, instead of M2 macrophages.
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Introduction: Flavonoids, as secondary metabolites in plants, play important roles in many biological processes and responses to environmental factors. Methods: Apricot fruits are rich in flavonoid compounds, and in this study, we performed a combined metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis of orange flesh (JN) and white flesh (ZS) apricot fruits. Results and discussion: A total of 222 differentially accumulated flavonoids (DAFs) and 15855 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) involved in flavonoid biosynthesis were identified. The biosynthesis of flavonoids in apricot fruit may be regulated by 17 enzyme-encoding genes, namely PAL (2), 4CL (9), C4H (1), HCT (15), C3'H (4), CHS (2), CHI (3), F3H (1), F3'H (CYP75B1) (2), F3'5'H (4), DFR (4), LAR (1), FLS (3), ANS (9), ANR (2), UGT79B1 (6) and CYP81E (2). A structural gene-transcription factor (TF) correlation analysis yielded 3 TFs (2 bHLH, 1 MYB) highly correlated with 2 structural genes. In addition, we obtained 26 candidate genes involved in the biosynthesis of 8 differentially accumulated flavonoids metabolites in ZS by weighted gene coexpression network analysis. The candidate genes and transcription factors identified in this study will provide a highly valuable molecular basis for the in-depth study of flavonoid biosynthesis in apricot fruits.
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BACKGROUND: The overuse of antibiotics in livestock is contributing to the burden of antimicrobial resistance in humans, representing a One Health challenge. Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) has recently become a growing concern, and ST9 is the major LA-MRSA lineage in China and has emerged in clinical settings. METHODS: Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was used to evaluate the tetracycline resistance of ST9 MRSA collections, and gene cloning experiments were performed to explore the resistance mechanisms. Whole-genome sequencing and comparative genomics were used to analyse the genetic features of clinical ST9 isolates. A phylogenetic tree was constructed to investigate the relationship of human- and livestock-derived ST9 isolates. RESULTS: Clinical ST9 isolates were found to possess several types of resistance genes and resistance-related mutations and were multidrug-resistant. Notably, all clinical ST9 isolates were resistant to third-generation tetracyclines. Cloning experiments showed that both the acquisition of the tetracycline resistance gene tet(L)/tet(63) and a mutation in the rpsJ gene contributed to third-generation tetracycline resistance. Phylogenetic analysis showed that the ST9 isolates collected in healthcare systems were probably transmitted from livestock. The ST9 lineage underwent multiple interspecies recombination events and gained many resistance elements. Furthermore, the resistance to third-generation tetracyclines may have evolved under tetracycline pressure in livestock. CONCLUSIONS: The evolution of ST9 MRSA in livestock and transmission of this clone between humans and livestock highlight the importance of establishing control strategies with the One Health approach to reduce the burden of antibiotic resistance.
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Staphylococcus aureus Resistente à Meticilina , Infecções Estafilocócicas , Animais , Humanos , Gado , Resistência a Tetraciclina/genética , Filogenia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/epidemiologia , Infecções Estafilocócicas/veterinária , Antibacterianos/farmacologia , Tetraciclina , China/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Not everybody can be equipped with professional photography skills and sufficient shooting time, and there can be some tilts in the captured images occasionally. In this paper, we propose a new and practical task, named Rotation Correction, to automatically correct the tilt with high content fidelity in the condition that the rotated angle is unknown. This task can be easily integrated into image editing applications, allowing users to correct the rotated images without any manual operations. To this end, we leverage a neural network to predict the optical flows that can warp the tilted images to be perceptually horizontal. Nevertheless, the pixel-wise optical flow estimation from a single image is severely unstable, especially in large-angle tilted images. To enhance its robustness, we propose a simple but effective prediction strategy to form a robust elastic warp. Particularly, we first regress the mesh deformation that can be transformed into robust initial optical flows. Then we estimate residual optical flows to facilitate our network the flexibility of pixel-wise deformation, further correcting the details of the tilted images. To establish an evaluation benchmark and train the learning framework, a comprehensive rotation correction dataset is presented with a large diversity in scenes and rotated angles. Extensive experiments demonstrate that even in the absence of the angle prior, our algorithm can outperform other state-of-the-art solutions requiring this prior. The code and dataset are available at https://github.com/nie-lang/RotationCorrection.
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Antibiotic stewardship has been prioritized by governments and health care organizations in recent years as antibiotic resistance is markedly increasing. A tertiary hospital in Guangzhou, China was chosen as a study example to undertake an implementation and effectiveness evaluation of China's antibiotic stewardship to improve and promote antimicrobial stewardship nationwide. The general surgery department of the study hospital was utilized to examine surgical site infection, and samples from across the hospital were used to identify bloodstream infection. Data was analyzed using descriptive analysis, the Mann-Kendall trend test, logit model and panel data model, and t-tests. In terms of prophylactic and therapeutic antibiotic rational use, respectively, we evaluated implementation conditions, the correlation between implementation and corresponding disease progress, and the cost-effectiveness of China's antibiotic stewardship. For perioperative prophylactic antibiotic use, antibiotic stewardship was found to have been well-implemented, cost-effective, and reduced the incidence of surgical site infection. However, concerning therapeutic use and antibiotic-resistant bacterial infection prophylaxis, the complexity of influencing factors and the contradiction between stewardship implementation and clinical demand needs to be further evaluated.