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Understanding the pathogenesis of the SARS-CoV-2 infection is key to developing preventive and therapeutic strategies against COVID-19, in the case of severe illness but also when the disease is mild. The use of appropriate experimental animal models remains central in the in vivo exploration of the physiopathology of infection and antiviral strategies. This study describes SARS-CoV-2 intranasal infection in ferrets and hamsters with low doses of low-passage SARS-CoV-2 clinical French isolate UCN19, describing infection levels, excretion, immune responses and pathological patterns in both animal species. Individual infection with 103 p.f.u. SARS-CoV-2 induced a more severe disease in hamsters than in ferrets. Viral RNA was detected in the lungs of hamsters but not of ferrets and in the brain (olfactory bulb and/or medulla oblongata) of both species. Overall, the clinical disease remained mild, with serological responses detected from 7 days and 10 days post-inoculation in hamsters and ferrets respectively. The virus became undetectable and pathology resolved within 14 days. The kinetics and levels of infection can be used in ferrets and hamsters as experimental models for understanding the pathogenicity of SARS-CoV-2, and testing the protective effect of drugs.Introduction. Increasing levels of antibiotic resistance are complicating treatment for the sexually transmitted pathogen Mycoplasma genitalium. Resistance to fluoroquinolones is associated with mutations in the parC gene. Although the precise mutations conferring resistance are not fully understood, the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) G248T/S83I is most implicated.Aim. To evaluate the performance of the MG+parC(beta2) assay (SpeeDx, Australia), which detects single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the parC gene at amino acid position S83 (A247C/S83R, G248T/S83I, G248A/S83N) and D87 (G259A/D87N, G259T/D87Y, G259C/D87H).Methods. Clinical samples were analysed by MG+parC(beta2) assay and results compared to Sanger sequencing. Sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value for treatment failure were calculated.Results. From analysis of 205 samples, the MG+parC(beta2) assay performed with a high sensitivity 98.2% (95% CI90.3-100) and specificity 99.3% (95% CI96.3-100) for parC SNP detection with a kappa of 0.97 (95% CI0.94-1.00). The predictive value of G248T/S83I detection (the most common SNP, prevalence of 13% in the study population) was analysed with respect to treatment failure (patients received sequential doxycycline-moxifloxacin). The positive-predictive-value for moxifloxacin failure after detection of S83I was only 44% (95% CI24.4-65.1), while negative-predictive-value was high at 96.9% (95% CI92.7-99.0), suggesting that other SNPs are contributing to resistance.Conclusion. MG+parC(beta2) performed with high concordance compared to Sanger sequencing. Such qPCR assays can assist in understanding causes of treatment failure, inform the development of diagnostic assays, and can be applied to surveillance of mutations in populations. Due to an incomplete understanding of the basis for fluoroquinolone resistance, such tests do not appear to be ready for clinical application.
Feelings of purpose and meaning in life are protective against consequential cognitive outcomes, including reduced risk of Alzheimer's disease and dementia. Purpose and meaning are likely to also be associated with cognitive functions on the pathway to dementia. The objective of the current research was to test whether both purpose in life and meaning in life are associated with higher verbal fluency and better episodic memory and whether these associations varied by sociodemographic characteristics or economic characteristics of the country.

Prospective meta-analysis of cross-sectional associations based on individual participant data.

Established cohort studies with measures of either purpose in life or meaning in life and verbal fluency and episodic memory.

Across the cohorts, there were over 140,000 participants from 32 countries from North and South America, Europe, and the Middle East.

The meta-analysis indicated that purpose and meaning were associated with better performance on both the verbal fluency (meta-analytic partial r = .098, 95% confidence interval [CI] = .080, .116, p < .001) and episodic memory (r = .117, 95% CI = .100, .135, p < .001) task and that these associations were similar across measures of purpose in life and meaning in life. There was modest evidence that these associations were slightly stronger in relatively lower-income countries, and there was less consistent evidence that they varied by age, gender, or education.

These findings indicate a robust association between purpose/meaning and both verbal fluency and episodic memory across demographic groups and cultural context. Purpose/meaning may be a useful target of intervention for healthier cognitive aging.
These findings indicate a robust association between purpose/meaning and both verbal fluency and episodic memory across demographic groups and cultural context. Purpose/meaning may be a useful target of intervention for healthier cognitive aging.
Previous research on the depression scale of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) has found that different latent factor models have maximized empirical measures of goodness-of-fit. The clinical relevance of these differences is unclear. We aimed to investigate whether depression screening accuracy may be improved by employing latent factor model-based scoring rather than sum scores.

We used an individual participant data meta-analysis (IPDMA) database compiled to assess the screening accuracy of the PHQ-9. We included studies that used the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM (SCID) as a reference standard and split those into calibration and validation datasets. ABT-199 datasheet In the calibration dataset, we estimated unidimensional, two-dimensional (separating cognitive/affective and somatic symptoms of depression), and bi-factor models, and the respective cut-offs to maximize combined sensitivity and specificity. In the validation dataset, we assessed the differences in (combined) sensitivity and specificity between the latent variable approaches and the optimal sum score (⩾10), using bootstrapping to estimate 95% confidence intervals for the differences.
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