Last data update: Sep 23, 2024. (Total: 47723 publications since 2009)
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Query Trace: Jost HA [original query] |
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Cytokine biomarkers associated with clinical cases of acute flaccid myelitis
Weldon WC , Zhao K , Jost HA , Hetzler K , Ciomperlik-Patton J , Konopka-Anstadt JL , Oberste MS . J Clin Virol 2020 131 104591 Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a serious neurological illness first recognized in the United States in 2014, with subsequent outbreaks every two years. Following extensive etiologic testing by multiple laboratories of hundreds of specimens collected from patients diagnosed with AFM, no consistent cause of AFM has been identified. However, viruses, including enteroviruses, have been implicated through detection in non-sterile site specimens and antibody studies. Cytokines and chemokines play important roles in the modulation of the innate and adaptive immune response to pathogens. In the current study, we measured levels of cytokines and chemokines in serum and CSF collected from confirmed AFM patients and non-AFM control patients, to identify unique biomarkers as potential hallmarks of AFM pathogenesis. Analysis of ratios of cytokines and chemokines in the CSF compared to the serum indicate that the pro-inflammatory cytokines/chemokines IP-10 and IL-6 were significantly elevated in AFM patients compared to non-AFM patients. These results may provide additional insight into potential etiologies, pathogenic mechanisms, and treatments for AFM. |
Effect of multiple freeze and thaw cycles on the sensitivity of IgG and IgM immunoglobulins in the sera of patients with syphilis
Castro AR , Jost HA . Sex Transm Dis 2013 40 (11) 870-1 We describe the effects of multiple freeze and thaw cycles on the sensitivity of the immunoglobulins IgG and IgM measured by enzyme-linked immunoassays in the sera of patients with syphilis. Stored frozen sera can withstand repeated freezing and thawing cycles with a minimal detrimental effect on the sensitivity of the sera. |
Evaluation of a digital flocculation reader for the rapid plasma reagin test for the serological diagnosis of syphilis
Castro AR , Binks DD , Raymer DL , Kikkert SE , Jost HA , Park MM , Card BD , Cox DL . Sex Transm Dis 2012 39 (3) 223-5 We described the ASiManager-AT digital flocculation reader to demonstrate concordance between visual and digital readings of the rapid plasma reagin test for detection of antibodies in the serum of patients with syphilis. A qualitative and quantitative rapid plasma reagin was performed on each serum samples giving a concordance of 98.6% and 99.7%, respectively, for reactives and 100% for nonreactives. |
A pilot study of host genetic variants associated with influenza-associated deaths among children and young adults.
Ferdinands JM , Denison AM , Dowling NF , Jost HA , Gwinn ML , Liu L , Zaki SR , Shay DK . Emerg Infect Dis 2011 17 (12) 2294-302 We compared the prevalence of 8 polymorphisms in the tumor necrosis factor and mannose-binding lectin genes among 105 children and young adults with fatal influenza with US population estimates and determined in subanalyses whether these polymorphisms were associated with sudden death and bacterial co-infection among persons with fatal influenza. No differences were observed in genotype prevalence or minor allele frequencies between persons with fatal influenza and the reference sample. Fatal cases with low-producing MBL2 genotypes had a 7-fold increased risk for invasive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) co-infection compared with fatal cases with high- and intermediate-producing MBL2 genotypes (odds ratio 7.1, 95% confidence interval 1.6-32.1). Limited analysis of 2 genes important to the innate immune response found no association between genetic variants and fatal influenza infection. Among children and young adults who died of influenza, low-producing MBL2 genotypes may have increased risk for MRSA co-infection. |
Diagnosis of influenza from respiratory autopsy tissues: detection of virus by real-time reverse transcription-PCR in 222 cases.
Denison AM , Blau DM , Jost HA , Jones T , Rollin D , Gao R , Liu L , Bhatnagar J , Deleon-Carnes M , Shieh WJ , Paddock CD , Drew C , Adem P , Emery SL , Shu B , Wu KH , Batten B , Greer PW , Smith CS , Bartlett J , Montague JL , Patel M , Xu X , Lindstrom S , Klimov AI , Zaki SR . J Mol Diagn 2011 13 (2) 123-8 The recent influenza pandemic, caused by a novel H1N1 influenza A virus, as well as the seasonal influenza outbreaks caused by varieties of influenza A and B viruses, are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide. Few studies have evaluated the utility of real-time reverse transcription-PCR to detect influenza virus RNA from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues obtained at autopsy. In this work, respiratory autopsy tissues from 442 suspect influenza cases were tested by real-time reverse transcription-PCR for seasonal influenza A and B and 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) viruses and the results were compared to those obtained by immunohistochemistry. In total, 222 cases were positive by real-time reverse transcription-PCR, and of 218 real-time, reverse transcription-PCR-positive cases also tested by immunohistochemistry, only 107 were positive. Although formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissues can be used for diagnosis, frozen tissues offer the best chance to make a postmortem diagnosis of influenza because these tissues possess nucleic acids that are less degraded and, as a consequence, provide longer sequence information than that obtained from fixed tissues. We also determined that testing of all available respiratory tissues is critical for optimal detection of influenza virus in postmortem tissues. |
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