Prevalence of genetic and environmental factors in childhood asthma and allergic rhinitis patients.

Introduction: Asthma and allergic rhinitis are common respiratory diseases in children, with complex aetiologies involving genetic and environmental factors.

Aim: This work was to identify the genetic and environmental risk factors' prevalence in asthma and allergic rhinitis in paediatric patients.

Material And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 120 paediatric patients with asthma and allergic rhinitis.

Emerging threats: Listeria monocytogenes with acquired multidrug resistance from food in China, 2012-2022.

Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen that poses threat to food safety and public health. Generally, the rates of resistance to clinically important antibiotics in L. monocytogenes are low.

The genomic characteristics of dominant Salmonella enterica serovars from retail pork in Sichuan province, China.

Foodborne Salmonella is the main cause of salmonellosis in China. Porcine animals are a reservoir for this bacterium consequently posing a threat to food safety and public health. In this study, 157 out of 240 pork samples (65.

[Contamination and molecular epidemiological characteristics of Salmonella in fruits, vegetables, and irrigation water].

Objective: To explore the genomic epidemiological characteristics of Salmonella in fruits, vegetables, and irrigation water in China.

Methods: A total of 410 samples of fruits, vegetables and irrigation water were collected from Hubei and Shaanxi Provinces from June to December 2022. Salmonella strains were detected and identified referenced in the United States Food and drug administration's bacteriological analytical manual.

Tracing the evolution: the rise of Thompson co-resistant to clinically important antibiotics in China, 1997-2020.

As clinical serovar Thompson (. Thompson) emerged among the top ten prevalent serovars in China, understanding the distribution and origin of its multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains becomes imperative. This study employed antimicrobial susceptibility testing, whole-genome sequencing, and bioinformatics analysis to investigate the prevalence and genomic profiles of clinically important .

Polysaccharide preferred minority-dominant community assembly and exoenzyme enrichment in transparent exopolymer particles: Implication for global carbon cycle in water.

The ubiquitous transparent exopolymer particles (TEPs) are an important organic carbon pool and an ideal microhabitat for bacteria in aquatic environments. They play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle. Organic matter transformation and carbon turnover in TEPs strongly depend on the assembly of their associated bacterial communities and enzyme activity.

Cold-upregulated glycosyltransferase gene 1 (OsCUGT1) plays important roles in rice height and spikelet fertility.

Glycosyltransferases (GTs) regulate many physiological processes and stress responses in plants. However, little is known about the function of GT in rice development. In this study, molecular analyses revealed that the expression of a rice GT gene (Cold-Upregulated Glycosyltransferase Gene 1, CUGT1) is developmentally controlled and stress-induced.