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We report the second case of deceased donor liver transplantation in a patient co-infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) in Japan. A 48- year-old patient with hemophilia A was infected with HIV and HCV through a contaminated factor VIII concentrate in his childhood and developed cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. The patient was on the transplant list for a deceased donor liver. The patient had broad spectrum anti-HLA class I and II antibodies, which may have been due to repeated whole blood transfusions in the past. Catastrophic coagulopathy during the surgery was predicted because of the underlying hemophilic status and severe thrombocytopenia requiring HLA-matched platelet products, which are difficult to obtain quickly. To maintain adequate platelet counts(>5x104/ μl) while waiting liver transplantation, a thrombopoietin receptor agonist and rituximab were administered. During surgery, factor VIII concentrate was administered according to the previously planned protocol. Adequate hemostasis was obtained, and the operation was completed without uncontrollable coagulopathy. The postoperative course was uneventful, and the patient was discharged on postoperative day 41. Detailed planning is required for surgical patients with hemophilia and HIV/HCV cirrhosis, especially for those with a diverse spectrum of anti-HLA antibodies.Scrub typhus is a mite-borne rickettsiosis caused by the intracellular bacterium Orientia tsutsugamushi (OTS), which is classified as a biosafety level-3 (BSL-3) pathogen. For serological tests of scrub typhus, mouse fibroblast cells infected with the five prevalent serotypes of OTS in Japan are generally used as antigens for indirect immunofluorescent assay (IFA). In this study, sf-9 insect cells infected with the recombinant type-specific antigens (rTSA)-expressing baculovirus were applied for IFA. The paired sera samples of 15 scrub typhus-patients, 10 rickettsiosis-patients, and 10 control individuals were used. Thiomyristoyl Both IgM and IgG IFA titers determined by the rTSA based IFA were correlated with those determined with the OTS-infected cell-based IFA (R 2 = 0.7319 to 0.7956). Based on the criteria for serological diagnosis, such as the suitable cutoff for single serum (IgM ≥ 1160) and/or significant increase in IgG titer between paired sera (≥ 4 times), all of the 15 scrub typhus patients diagnosed as positive with OTS-infected cell-based IFA were also diagnosed as positive by the rTSA-based IFA, whereas all 10 rickettsiosis patients and 10 control individuals were not. The rTSAs, which can be prepared in BSL-2 laboratories, are efficacious in the serological diagnosis of scrub typhus.Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an inflammation of the central nervous system resulting in clinical disease, with symptoms ranging broadly in severity from mild febrile illness to acute meningomyeloencephalitis. JE has been associated with a variety of neurological abnormalities such as altered sensorium, seizures, focal neurological deficit, and acute flaccid paralysis (AFP). However, AFP has never been reported as the initial manifestation of JE. Here we present a case of AFP as the initial manifestation of JE in a Chinese patient. A 30-year-old Chinese man was admitted to West China Hospital of Sichuan University after experiencing AFP in the right upper limb followed by hyperpyrexia and unconsciousness. Assay of cerebrospinal fluid from lumbar puncture revealed high levels of proteins and anti- Japanese encephalitis virus IgM antibodies. Acyclovir (used by intravenous drip) was administered. However, the weakness persisted and more extensive muscle wasting from the proximal to distal right upper limb occurred during seven months. This case reports highlights that JE needs to be added to the differential diagnosis of AFP initiating in an adult in JE endemic seasons and areas.Marine bacterium Vibrio cholerae, belonging to serogroups O1 and O139 are responsible to cause cholera in human. Pentose sugar arabinose is nonmetabolizable by the pathogen and is present in environmental niches as well as in the human intestine. In this study, arabinose mediated V. cholerae growth interference has been assessed in M9 minimal medium containing gluconate as sole carbon source in the light of Entner-Doudoroff (ED) pathway, an obligatory metabolic route for gluconate utilization. V. cholerae O1 and O139 strains failed to grow in presence of ≥0.3% arabinose in M9 with 0.2% gluconate but no growth inhibition in presence of arabinose in M9 with 0.2% glucose. Transcriptional analysis of edd and eda, the genes constituting the ED pathway, showed ~100 and ~17 folds increase, respectively, in M9-gluconate. Minor increase of ~4 and ~2 folds for the edd and eda, respectively, was noted in 0.5% arabinose supplemented AKI. Observed arabinose mediated growth inhibition also contributes to understanding of altered phenotypes, if any, during complementation/expression studies in V. cholerae with PBAD vectors and arabinose as an inducer.Cardiovascular events still occur despite statin-based lipid-lowering therapy in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). LR11, a member of the low-density lipoprotein receptor family, is a novel marker for the proliferation of intimal smooth muscle cells, which are critical to atherosclerotic plaque formation. We evaluated the impact of LR11 on long-term clinical outcomes in CAD patients treated with statins after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI).This study included 223 consecutive CAD patients (age, 64.5 ± 9.6 years; male, 81.2%) treated with statin after first PCI between March 2003 and December 2004 at our institution. Patients were stratified to two groups according to LR11 levels (median). Composite cardiovascular disease (CVD) endpoints that included cardiovascular death, non-fatal acute coronary syndrome and non-fatal stroke were compared between groups.The rate of CVD endpoints was significantly higher in the high LR11 group (log-rank, P = 0.0029) during the median follow-up period of 2844 days. Multivariate Cox regression analysis showed that a higher LR11 level was significantly associated with adverse clinical outcomes (adjusted hazard ratio for composite CVD endpoints, 2.47; 95% confidence interval, 1.29-4.92; P = 0.006).Elevated levels of LR11 were significantly associated with long-term clinical outcomes among CAD patients treated with statins after first PCI.