Project description:A total of 52 patients were analyzed: 21 of them monoinfected with HCV and 31 coinfected with HIV (HCV/HIV). HCV patients were recruited from Hospital Italiano and Hospital José María Ramos Mejía from Buenos Aires, Argentina, and HCV/HIV patients from Hospital Universitario La Paz, Hospital Infanta Leonor, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Hospital Puerta de Hierro, from Madrid, Spain. All samples were processed at the National Center for Microbiology (Madrid). Patients were naıve of treatment for HCV. CHC infection was defined by the presence of anti-HCV antibodies in serum and detectable HCV RNA in plasma samples in at least 2 separate occasions. All HIV+ patients had HIV antibodies, CD4+ T-cells counts ≥ 500 cel/mm3 for at least one year before sample collection, and undetectable HIV viral load since they received suppressive antiretroviral treatment (ART) for at least one year. Plasma extracellular vesicles isolation and RNA purification was performed using the ExoRNeasy Serum/Plasma Midi kit (QIAGEN, Cat #77044). EVs were phenol-lysed and total RNA was purified by ethanol-based membrane binding into spin columns. Quality and integrity were evaluated by the Bioanalyzer 2100 with Agilent RNA 6000 Nano kit (Agilent). Small RNA library synthesis and sequencing were performed at Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) at Barcelona (Spain). Small RNA libraries were constructed with Illumina’s TruSeq Small RNA kit v.4 (Illumina) and 50nts (1x50) were sequenced in an Illumina HiSeq2500, with a single read approach.
Project description:While the majority of infants infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) exhibit mild or no symptoms, approximately 3 million children under the age of five are hospitalized every year due to complications from RSV. This research sought to explore the biological processes and related biomarkers responsible for the varied manifestations of RSV disease in young infants. The goal is to pave the way for a more precise categorization of RSV-infected infants based on their medical requirements. Whole blood samples are collected from infant case-control cohort study, the RESCEU case-control cohort is a multinational, multicenter, observational study (clinical trial registration number: NCT03756766). Infants < 12 months old with RSV disease were recruited from the University Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU) in The Netherlands, Hospital Clínico Universitario de Santiago (SERGAS) in Spain, Imperial College (IMPERIAL) National Health Service Trust (NHS) and Oxford University Hospital NHS Trust (OXFORD) in the United Kingdom during the RSV seasons 2017-2018, 2018-2019, and 2019-2020. Healthy controls without underlying comorbidities were recruited outside of the RSV season. Eligibility criteria included hospitalization for less than 48 hours at enrolment or within 96 hours of disease onset, no previous receipt of medications to treat RSV infection, no prior exposure to an investigational RSV vaccine or medication, no previous receipt of immunoglobulins or monoclonal antibodies, and had not used montelukast or oral steroids within seven days before enrolment. Infants with co-morbidities were not evaluated in the manuscript. RSV was detected using RSV point-of-care test (POCT) by either a rapid antigen detection test (Alere I) (Alere Inc, Waltham, Massachusetts) or rapid RSV polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test at the hospital setting, or a RSV PCR test at the laboratory. Convalescence samples were collected 7 ±1 weeks after a positive RSV diagnostic test result. We used microarray to assist us to identify biomarkers for severe RSV disease.
Project description:In this study, 30 pancreatic tissues were retrieved, including 20 samples of pancreatic ductal cell carcinoma and 10 of adjacent healthy tissues. All pancreatic samples were obtained from the First Hospital of Lanzhou University from January 2016 to December 2020.
2023-08-11 | PXD044500 |
Project description:Vancomycin-sensitive Enterococcus faecium bacteraemia - hospital transmission and mortality in a Danish University Hospital
Project description:We performed in-depth MS-based plasma-proteome profiling in 20 hospitalised patients with COVID-19 and 7 healthy controls (PCR- and sero-negative for SARS-CoV-2) by high-resolution isoelectric focusing (HiRIEF) coupled with liquid chromatography and mass-spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). The SARS‐CoV‐2 PCR‐confirmed patients from Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, were included in the study in April 2020. Data from the cohort and methodology of clinical and immunological assays has been previously described in detail elsewhere (Varnaitė et al., 2020). The study was approved by the Regional Ethical Review Board in Stockholm, Sweden and by the Swedish Ethical Review Authority, and is in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. All COVID-19 patients and healthy controls included in this study provided written informed consent. The cohort is described in detail elsewhere (Varnaitė et al., 2020) Reference: Varnaitė, R., García, M., Glans, H., Maleki, K.T., Sandberg, J.T., Tynell, J., Christ, W., Lagerqvist, N., Asgeirsson, H., Ljunggren, H.-G., et al. (2020). Expansion of SARS-CoV-2-Specific Antibody-Secreting Cells and Generation of Neutralizing Antibodies in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients. J. Immunol. 205, 2437–2446.
2023-09-01 | PXD037486 | Pride
Project description:Outbreak by KPC-62-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates resistant to cefiderocol and ceftazidime-avibactam in a University Hospital in Madrid, Spain
Project description:Chronic skeletal muscle mitochondria dyshomeostasis drives tubular aggregate formation. TMT sixplex Isobaric Mass Tagging analysis was carried out in the CBMSO Protein Chemistry Facility (ProteoRed, PRB3-ISCIII and UAM University, Spain.
Project description:The objective is to generate a robust and validated predictor profile for chemotherapy response in patients with mCRC using microarray gene expression profiles of primary colorectal cancer tissue. To define a gene signature of response to chemotherapy in metastatic colorectal cancer, samples were obtained from 40 patients from Marques de Valdecilla Hospital who underwent primary surgery. Gene expression was detected and quantified using the Human Whole Genome U133 Plus 2.0 array (Affymetrix), containing 54675 human gene probes. The validation set consisted of 119 samples from Hospital Virgen del Rocio, Seville, Spain; Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Malaga, Spain; Hospital de la Merced, Osuna, Spain and Hospital MarquM-CM-)s de Valdecilla, Santander, Spain, and included 86 tumor samples (40 coming from the training set and 46 from newly treated CRC patients) and 33 normal tissue samples of CRC patients used as controls. Custom-designed TaqManM-BM-. Low Density Arrays (TLDA) 7900 HT Micro Fluidic Cards including the 161 genes selected for validation were run and analyzed by the ABI PRISMM-BM-. 7900HT Sequence Detection System (SDS 2.2, Applied Biosystems) according to manufacturer's protocol (Applied Biosystems). Expression of target miRNAs was normalized in relation to the expression of GAPDH. Cycle threshold (Ct) values were calculated using the SDS software v.4.2 using automatic baseline settings and a threshold of 0.2. Relative quantification of gene expression was calculated by the 2M-bM-^HM-^RM-NM-^TCt method (Applied Biosystems user bulletin no. 2 (P/N 4303859)). This submission represents the RT-PCR component of the study only
Project description:TMT sixplex Isobaric Mass Tagging (TAM) analysis was carried out in the CBMSO Protein Chemistry Facility (ProteoRed, PRB3-ISCIII and UAM University, Spain. Chronic skeletal muscle mitochondria dyshomeostasis drives tubular aggregate formation.