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Bacterial meningitis shows a higher incidence in children than adults, but signs may be scarce. Although some pathogenic microorganisms of meningitis from cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) have been reported, the signature of the representative microbiota in CSF and blood samples from patients remains incompletely revealed. To extend the understanding of the microbiome in patients, we recruited 32 children with bacterial meningitis, 30 undiagnosed infectious children, and 10 matched healthy individuals, which was followed by untargeted metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) and bioinformatic analysis. Our results showed that children with bacterial meningitis exhibited different microbiome signatures in their CSF and blood compared with undiagnosed and healthy children, and patients could be divided into varied subsets according to these signatures, including Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Thermothelomyces thermophila, Lactobacillus acidophilus, and Staphylococcus haemolyticus. To further explore their potential role in patients' conditions, we examined their correlation with clinical parameters. Importantly, microbiome signatures with compositional changes were correlated with the C-reactive protein (CRP) level in blood and granulocyte percentage in CSF. Moreover, the blood in subsets of patients with a predominance of Klebsiella pneumoniae could replace CSF as the main specimen for clinical monitoring. IMPORTANCE This study revealed the microbial compositions in children with bacterial meningitis who were treated with antibiotics and made a comprehensive comparison between blood and CSF specimens for the risk and prognosis assessment. We found that microbiome signatures could distinguish patient subsets in the children and were correlated with the CRP level in blood and granulocyte percentage in CSF. The compositional changes in representative microbiota constituents could provide guidance for clinical monitoring and antibiotic intervention.Purpose The main concept analysis (MCA; Kong, 2009) quantifies the effectiveness and efficiency of information transfer during verbal discourse by means of four sets of sequential pictorial stimuli. This test was originally developed for a Cantonese-speaking population. The main goals of this study were (a) to translate and adapt the MCA to Dutch; (b) to establish normative data for healthy native Dutch-speaking adults; (c) to assess the effect of age, education level, and gender on MCA outcome; and (d) to establish inter- and intrarater reliability of the Dutch MCA. Method Language samples were collected from 60 healthy native Dutch speakers, equally recruited in different age (20-39 years, 40-59 years, 60-79 years) and education (middle and highly educated) categories through administration of the MCA. Utterances produced by at least 75% of the participants were included as a main concept in the Dutch MCA. Subsequently, age-specific normative data were established for each of the MCA parameters. Finally, an ICC was calculated in order to verify inter- and intrarater reliability of the Dutch MCA. Results The translated MCA consisted of 19 main concepts. Age-specific normative data were obtained. Both age and education level had a significant effect on MCA outcome. Information transfer in elderly was both less effectively and efficiently compared to young- and middle-aged adults. In addition, highly educated participants transferred information less efficiently compared to middle educated participants. Based on inter- and intrarater reliability measures, the Dutch MCA proved to be a reliable measuring instrument. Nor-NOHA Conclusions The MCA was translated to Dutch, and age-specific normative data were established for a healthy, Dutch-speaking population. The Dutch MCA is a reliable tool for eliciting and quantifying discourse production. Validation of the test for people with aphasia is necessary in order for the test to be useful in a clinical practice.Purpose This study investigated the effects of visually presented speech envelope information with various modulation rates and depths on audiovisual speech perception in noise. Method Forty adults (21.25 ± 1.45 years) participated in audiovisual sentence recognition measurements in noise. Target speech sentences were auditorily presented in multitalker babble noises at a -3 dB SNR. Acoustic amplitude envelopes of target signals were extracted through low-pass filters with different cutoff frequencies (4, 10, and 30 Hz) and a fixed modulation depth at 100% (Experiment 1) or extracted with various modulation depths (0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%) and a fixed 10-Hz modulation rate (Experiment 2). The extracted target envelopes were synchronized with the amplitude of a spherical-shaped ball and presented as visual stimuli. Subjects were instructed to attend to both auditory and visual stimuli of the target sentences and type down their answers. The sentence recognition accuracy was compared between audio-only and audiovisual conditions. Results In Experiment 1, a significant improvement in speech intelligibility was observed when the visual analog (a sphere) synced with the acoustic amplitude envelope modulated at a 10-Hz modulation rate compared to the audio-only condition. In Experiment 2, the visual analog with 75% modulation depth resulted in better audiovisual speech perception in noise compared to the other modulation depth conditions. Conclusion An abstract visual analog of acoustic amplitude envelopes can be efficiently delivered by the visual system and integrated online with auditory signals to enhance speech perception in noise, independent of particular articulation movements.Purpose For bilaterally implanted patients, the automatic gain control (AGC) in both left and right cochlear implant (CI) processors is usually neither linked nor synchronized. At high AGC compression ratios, this lack of coordination between the two processors can distort interaural level differences, the only useful interaural difference cue available to CI patients. This study assessed the improvement, if any, in the utility of interaural level differences for sound source localization in the frontal hemifield when AGCs were synchronized versus independent and when listeners were stationary versus allowed to move their heads. Method Sound source identification of broadband noise stimuli was tested for seven bilateral CI patients using 13 loudspeakers in the frontal hemifield, under conditions where AGCs were linked and unlinked. For half the conditions, patients remained stationary; in the other half, they were encouraged to rotate or reorient their heads within a range of approximately ± 30° during sound presentation. Results In general, those listeners who already localized reasonably well with independent AGCs gained the least from AGC synchronization, perhaps because there was less room for improvement. Those listeners who performed worst with independent AGCs gained the most from synchronization. All listeners performed as well or better with synchronization than without; however, intersubject variability was high. Head movements had little impact on the effectiveness of synchronization of AGCs. Conclusion Synchronization of AGCs offers one promising strategy for improving localization performance in the frontal hemifield for bilaterally implanted CI patients. Supplemental Material https//doi.org/10.23641/asha.14681412.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the new classification of urinary tract dilatation (UTD) to predict long-term clinical outcomes in infants with isolated antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH).

Between 1989 and 2019, 447 infants diagnosed with isolated severe ANH and were prospectively followed. The main predictive variable for the analysis was the new UTD classification system. The events of interest were surgical interventions, urinary tract infections, chronic kidney disease stage II or higher, hypertension and proteinuria. The primary end-point was time until the occurrence of a composite event of renal injury, including proteinuria, hypertension and chronic kidney disease.

Among 447 infants with ANH included in the analysis, 255 (57%) had UTD P1, 93 (20.8%) UTD P2 and 99 (22.2%) UTD P3. Median followup time was 9 years (IQR 7-12 years). Of 447 patients included in the analysis, 11 (2.5%) had hypertension, 13 (2.9%) exhibited persistent mild proteinuria, 14 (3%) developed chronic kidney disease Stage 2 and 26 (5.8%) had the composite outcome of renal injury. By survival analysis, the UTD system predicted accurately all events of interest. According to the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, the probability of renal injury at 20 years of age was estimated at about 0%, 14% and 56% for patients assigned to UTD P1, UTD P2 and UTD P3, respectively (p <0.001).

Our findings provide insights that the new UTD classification has a good performance for discriminating not only mid-term, but also long-term clinical outcomes, including renal injury.
Our findings provide insights that the new UTD classification has a good performance for discriminating not only mid-term, but also long-term clinical outcomes, including renal injury.We have developed the two-body coupled-rotator slowly relaxing local structure (SRLS) approach for elucidating protein dynamics by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation. The rotators are represented by diffusion tensors D1 for overall protein tumbling and D2 for locally ordered probe motion. D1 and D2 are coupled dynamically by a potential, u, typically given by linear combinations of the Wigner functions D002 and (D022 + D0-22). Until now, our SRLS analyses provided the tensors, D1 and D2, the potential, u, and the geometric link between SRLS and NMR. Here we enhance this description by also examining the SRLS spectral densities obtained by solving the SRLS Smoluchowski equation. In addition, we show that the form of u specified above complies with two NMR-detected potential energy landscapes representing preferential ordering along N-H or Cα-Cα. Pictorial illustrations thereof are provided. The extended SRLS analysis is applied to 15N-H relaxation from the carbohydrate recognition domain of galectin-3 (Gal3C) in complex with two diastereomeric ligands, S and R. We find that D2 is isotropic with a principal value, D2, of 1010 s-1 on average, and it is faster in the strands β3, β5, and β8. The potential, u, is strong (∼20 kT); it is slightly rhombic when N-H is the main ordering axis and highly rhombic when Cα-Cα is the main ordering axis. Gal3C-S exhibits primarily preferential ordering along Cα-Cα; Gal3C-R exhibits both types of ordering. The binding-associated polypeptide chain segment of Gal3C-S is homogeneous, whereas that of Gal3C-R is diversified, with regard to D2 and ordering preference. We associate these features with the previously determined diminished binding constant of Gal3C-R in comparison with Gal3C-S. Thus, the present study enhances the SRLS analysis, in general, and provides new insights into the dynamic structure and binding properties of Gal3C-S and Gal3C-R, in particular.The use of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes (BCPs) as para-disubstituted aryl bioisosteres has gained considerable momentum in drug development programs. Carbon-carbon bond formation via transition-metal-mediated cross-coupling represents an attractive strategy to generate BCP-aryl compounds for late-stage functionalization, but these typically require reactive organometallics to prepare BCP nucleophiles on demand from [1.1.1]propellane. In this study, the synthesis and Ni-catalyzed functionalization of BCP redox-active esters with (hetero)aryl bromides via the action of a photoactive electron donor-acceptor complex are reported.
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