A cluster of two psittacosis cases among women farmers exposed to Chlamydia psittaci-infected domestic poultry in Zhejiang Province,China

A cluster of Chlamydia psittaci (C. psittaci) cases was reported in Zhejiang Province, China, 2019. This study evaluates the extent of the outbreak and determines the source of infection. Real-time PCR and sequencing of the ompA gene of C. psittaci were performed to identify the cases, the domesticated poultry and close contacts. The index patient was a 76-year-old woman with chronic vertigo, and Case 2 was a 64-year-old female farmer with herpes zoster. Both women bought psittaci-infected chickens or ducks from the same mobile street vendor and raised them for 10 days and 23 days before fever onset. There were no direct contact between the two women. C. psittaci test was positive for the two patients, one sick chicken, three healthy ducks and the vendor's chicken cage. Phylogenetic analysis showed that all seven C. psittaci positive samples carried identical ompA genotype A of C. psittaci. Of all of the patients' 148 close contacts, none tested positive for C. psittaci, or developed acute respiratory symptoms. Both patients were discharged after a 4-week hospital stay. In conclusion, the source of this cluster was the poultry infected with C. psittaci, which occasionally cause infections in farmers, but inter-human transmission seems unlikely.     

绵羊肺炎支原体分子致病机理研究进展

绵羊肺炎支原体（Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae,MO）引起的支原体肺炎（Mycoplasma pneumonia）是严重危害养羊业的重要呼吸道疫病。绵羊肺炎支原体感染具有隐蔽性、持续性,造成患病羊生产性能下降,严重影响养羊经济效益。综合近期国内外关于绵羊肺炎支原体分子致病机制的文献报道,从绵羊肺炎支原体与呼吸道上皮细胞黏附、致下呼吸道损伤和引起机体免疫抑制三方面进行综述,以期为后续深入研究绵羊肺炎支原体致病机理、开发新型防控技术奠定基础。     

水稻类病斑突变体lmm7的鉴定与基因定位

【目的】对水稻类病斑突变体的研究有助于解析其与植物生长和防御反应的关系。【方法】本研究在粳稻品系FI135胚培养过程中获得了1个类病斑突变体lmm7(lesion mimic mutant 7)。通过对其进行系统的表型鉴定、农艺性状考查、超微结构观察、生理学特性分析，阐明LMM7基因对植物生长的调控。通过病原菌抗性鉴定，明确lmm7对植物防御反应的影响。利用9311B与突变体lmm7杂交所得F₂群体对该突变体进行了遗传分析和基因精细定位。【结果】该突变体苗期表型正常，分蘖初期，植株基部叶片从叶尖开始不断出现褐色斑点，并向整株扩散，且斑点数目随植株生长不断增加。与野生型相比，突变体的株高、穗长、有效穗数、每穗粒数、结实率及剑叶长宽都显著降低，但籽粒性状和抽穗期没有显著性差异。遮光处理表明，突变体lmm7的表型受到光照诱导，抽穗期突变体lmm7叶肉细胞严重失绿，光合色素含量显著降低。组织化学分析表明，突变体病斑处的H₂O₂含量显著升高。透射电镜观察结果表明，突变体lmm7叶肉细胞的叶绿体数目减少，叶绿体类囊体片层结构严重受损，细胞器肿胀解体，并出现大量嗜锇小体，同时病斑内部和周围区域积累了大量的ROS。抗性鉴定结果显示突变体lmm7稻瘟病抗性水平显著高于野生型。遗传分析表明lmm7的突变表型受单个隐性基因控制。利用图位克隆的方法，目的基因被定位于水稻第7染色体短臂两InDel标记7B35和7B43之间，区间范围约260 kb。测序结果表明该区间内候选基因LOC_Os07g0203700第2891位碱基T发生了单碱基缺失，导致后续移码突变及翻译提前终止。【结论】lmm7与spl5互为等位基因，其突变抑制了植株的生长，同时增强了对稻瘟病的抗性。