scholarly journals Characteristics of in peripheral blood of 70 hospitalized patients and 8 diarrhea patients with COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 1142-1146
Author(s):  
Xiao-Yu Wei ◽  
Ding Jing ◽  
Bei Jia ◽  
Qing Li ◽  
Xia-Qia Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Hospitalized Patients

scholarly journals Characteristics of peripheral blood differential counts in hospitalized patients with COVID‐19

2020 ◽  
Vol 105 (6) ◽  
pp. 773-778 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene S. Pakos ◽  
Kevin Bryan Lo ◽  
Grace Salacup ◽  
Jerald Pelayo ◽  
Ruchika Bhargav ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Hospitalized Patients ◽  
Differential Counts

scholarly journals Blood eosinophil levels and prognosis of hospitalized patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songsong Yu ◽  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Qiuhong Fang ◽  
Zhaohui Tong
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Acute Exacerbation ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Hospitalized Patients ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Blood Eosinophil ◽  
Obstructive Pulmonary Disease ◽  
Systemic Glucocorticoids ◽  
Duration Of Hospitalization ◽  
Eosinophil Counts

Abstract Background: Studies about the clinical significance of high eosinophil levels in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are conflicting, and it has been less studied in hospitalized patients with acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD).This study was to examine blood eosinophil levels in relation to the prognosis of hospitalized patients with AECOPD.Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of patients with AECOPD as their primary diagnosis and admitted to Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Capital Medical University, from January 2010 to December 2016. The patients were assigned according to the proportion and count of eosinophil in peripheral blood at their first hospitalization. Patients were grouped as ≤100, 100-300, and ≥300 eosinophils/µL of peripheral blood. The use of glucocorticoids, duration of hospitalization, in-hospital mortality, and re-hospitalization were examined.Results: Compared with the 100-300 eosinophils/µL group, the ≤100 eosinophils/µL group showed higher frequencies of fever, respiratory failure, and the use of systemic glucocorticoids. Eosinophil counts were not associated with in-hospital mortality and duration of hospitalization. The multivariable analysis showed that GOLD3/4 (odds ratio (OR)=2.04, 95%CI: 1.20-3.44, P=0.008), neutrophil count (OR=1.21, 95%CI: 1.03-1.41, P=0.019), systemic glucocorticoids (OR=1.84, 95%CI: 1.41-2.98, P=0.012), mechanical ventilation (OR=2.66, 95%CI: 1.36-5.18, P=0.004), and acute exacerbation in the past year before hospitalization (OR=2.03, 95%CI: 1.27-3.23, P=0.003) were independently associated with acute exacerbation within 1 year after discharge. Eosinophil count was not associated with acute exacerbation within 1 year after discharge.Conclusion: Peripheral blood eosinophil counts are not associated with the 1-year AECOPD prognosis.

The Growth of Herpesvirus mulatto in Human Fibroblast

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 244-245
Author(s):  
Glennelle Washington ◽  
Philip P. McGrath ◽  
Peter R. Graze ◽  
Ivor Royston
Keyword(s):  
Rhesus Monkey ◽  
Microscopic Study ◽  
Electron Microscopic Study ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Human Fibroblast ◽  
Rhesus Monkeys ◽  
Human Fibroblasts ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Specific Antisera ◽  
Peripheral Blood Leucocytes

Herpes-like viruses were isolated from rhesus monkey peripheral blood leucocytes when co-cultivated with WI-38 cells. The virus was originally designated rhesus leucocyte-associated herpesvirus (LAHV) and subsequently called Herpesvirus mulatta (HVM). The original isolations were from juvenile rhesus monkeys shown to be free of antibody to rhesus cytomegalic virus. The virus could only be propagated in human or simian fibroblasts. Use of specific antisera developed from HVM showed no relationship between this virus and other herpesviruses. An electron microscopic study was undertaken to determine the morphology of Herpesvirus mulatta (HVM) in infected human fibroblasts.

A Quantitative Ultrastructural Study of Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Containing Parallel Tubular Arrays in Epstein-Barr Virus and Cytomegalo-Virus Mononucleosis

1981 ◽  
Vol 39 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
C. M. Payne ◽  
P. M. Tennican
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Lymphocyte Count ◽  
Epstein Barr Virus ◽  
Absolute Lymphocyte Count ◽  
Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes ◽  
Clinical State ◽  
Barr Virus ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Epstein Barr ◽  
Tubular Arrays

In the normal peripheral circulation there exists a sub-population of lymphocytes which is ultrastructurally distinct. This lymphocyte is identified under the electron microscope by the presence of cytoplasmic microtubular-like inclusions called parallel tubular arrays (PTA) (Figure 1), and contains Fc-receptors for cytophilic antibody. In this study, lymphocytes containing PTA (PTA-lymphocytes) were quantitated from serial peripheral blood specimens obtained from two patients with Epstein -Barr Virus mononucleosis and two patients with cytomegalovirus mononucleosis. This data was then correlated with the clinical state of the patient.It was determined that both the percentage and absolute number of PTA- lymphocytes was highest during the acute phase of the illness. In follow-up specimens, three of the four patients' absolute lymphocyte count fell to within normal limits before the absolute PTA-lymphocyte count.In one patient who was followed for almost a year, the absolute PTA- lymphocyte count was consistently elevated (Figure 2). The estimation of absolute PTA-lymphocyte counts was determined to be valid after a morphometric analysis of the cellular areas occupied by PTA during the acute and convalescent phases of the disease revealed no statistical differences.

Neutrophil pseudoplatelets in subgingival plaque and crevicular fluid samples from periodontal diseased sites

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 862-863 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Hanker ◽  
E.J. Burkes ◽  
G. Greco ◽  
R. Scruggs ◽  
B. Giammara
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Bone Marrow ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Gingival Crevicular Fluid ◽  
Light And Electron Microscopy ◽  
Subgingival Plaque ◽  
Staining Reaction ◽  
Gram Negative Bacteria ◽  
Gram Negative ◽  
Crevicular Fluid

The mature neutrophil with a segmented nucleus (usually having 3 or 4 lobes) is generally considered to be the end-stage cell of the neutrophil series. It is usually found as such in the bone marrow and peripheral blood where it normally is the most abundant leukocyte. Neutrophils, however, must frequently leave the peripheral blood and migrate into areas of infection to combat microorganisms. It is in such areas that neutrophils were first observed to fragment to form platelet-size particles some of which have a nuclear lobe. These neutrophil pseudoplatelets (NPP) can readily be distinguished from true platelets because they stain for neutrophil myeloperoxidase. True platelets are not positive in this staining reaction because their peroxidase Is inhibited by glutaraldehyde. Neutrophil pseudoplatelets, as well as neutrophils budding to form NPP, could frequently be observed in peripheral blood or bone marrow samples of leukemia patients. They are much more prominent, however, in smears of inflammatory exudates that contain gram-negative bacteria and in gingival crevicular fluid samples from periodontal disease sites. In some of these samples macrophages ingesting, or which contained, pseudoplatelets could be observed. The myeloperoxidase in the ingested pseudoplatelets was frequently active. Despite these earlier observations we did not expect to find many NPP in subgingival plaque smears from diseased sites. They were first seen by light microscopy (Figs. 1, 3-5) in smears on coverslips stained with the PATS reaction, a variation of the PAS reaction which deposits silver for light and electron microscopy. After drying replicate PATS-stained coverslips with hexamethyldisilazane, they were sputter coated with gold and then examined by the SEI and BEI modes of scanning electron microscopy (Fig. 2). Unstained replicate coverslips were fixed, and stained for the demonstration of myeloperoxidase in budding neutrophils and NPP. Neutrophils, activated macrophages and spirochetes as well as other gram-negative bacteria were also prominent in the PATS stained samples. In replicate subgingival plaque smears stained with our procedure for granulocyte peroxidases only neutrophils, budding neutrophils or NPP were readily observed (Fig. 6).

Interleukin-4, interferon-gamma and interleukin-5 in peripheral blood of children with moderate atopic asthma

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (11) ◽  
pp. 1254-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. O. HOEKSTRA ◽  
Y. HOEKSTRA ◽  
D. DE REUS ◽  
B. RUTGERS ◽  
J. GERRITSEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interferon Gamma ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Atopic Asthma ◽  
Interleukin 4 ◽  
Interleukin 5
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