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Newborn Care Safety from Mothers' Perspective
HIPPMANNOVÁ, Sonja
Current Status: The need of safety and security is one of the basic needs of a newborn. The nurses' role is to assess the level of education need in a newborn baby care and educate the mother accordingly, using a suitable method. The aim of the research was to assess the level of knowledge of mothers in a newborn care safety in home environment. Methodology: The study used quantitative method of research, using the technique of non-standardized survey. The selection of the respondents was intentional. The focus group were mothers of physiological newborns (N=300), that gave birth in Hospital in Jablonec nad Nisou between 15.11. 2020 and 30.1.2021. Results: Approximately half of the respondents (52 %) claimed that the benefit of postpartum bonding between a mother and her newborn is promotion of creation of breast milk. Only 45 % of respondents claimed that they wash their hands longer than 30 seconds and less than 1/5 of all respondents follow all six steps of proper hand washing. Less than half of the respondents (45 %) consider sleeping position on stomach or side of a newborn as a risk factor of SIDS. More than half of the respondents (60 %) knew how to resuscitate a newborn. The share of mothers in age category between 18-25 who answered wrong questions asking about CPR of a newborn was statistically significantly greater (p = 0,035) than share of mothers in higher age category. Respondents whose postpartum hospitalization lasted more than 72 hours claimed greater satisfaction with education in breast care statistically significantly more often (p = 0,029) than mothers hospitalized for shorter time. Respondents with primary level of education answered wrong questions asking about manipulation with a baby on a changing table statistically significantly more often (p = 0,046) than mothers with higher levels of education. Mothers having a fourth baby answered correctly question if blisters are a symptom of omphalitis, statistically significantly more often than mothers with less children (p = 0,014). Conclusion and Utilisation in Practice: Based on results of the research was created educational material "At Home with a Newborn Baby. A Few Handy Tips".
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Functional and pathological changes in the stomach of hosts infected with gastric cryptosporidia
MARKOVÁ, Marie
The aim of this study was to observe and record the effect of infection with gastric species of the genus Cryptosporidium on the gastric characteristics of their hosts. The species Cryptosporidium proliferans was used for a series of experimental infections, and three types of model hosts - BALB/c mice, C57Bl6 mice and multimammate mice (Mastomys coucha) - were used as experimental animals. Oocysts were detected in the faeces of infected animals by standard parasitological, specific staining and molecular methods and the course of infection and pathogenicity of the Cryptosporidium species were described. Groups of animals comprising of 1-3 animals were humanely euthanized at seven-day intervals up to 70 days after infection. C. proliferans was found to have a direct effect on pH change in selected host types, with an increase in pH at the peak of infection and, depending on the host type, either an increase until the end of the experiment or, in the case of self-healing, a gradual return to physiological values. Pathological changes of the gastric mucosa during the course of the infection were recorded by histological methods, which were its thickening and increased mucus production, as well as the presence of inflammatory infiltrates and the intensity of the infection, to varying degrees across the selected hosts and the course of the infection. We found that even with short-term infection in BALB/c and C57Bl6 mice, there is both mucosal enlargement and thickening, although the pathological changes in these types of mice are not as extensive as in multimammate mice, which do not self-heal.
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Faktory ovlivňující excystaci žaludečních kryptosporidií hlodavců
SCHULZOVÁ, Tereza
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of host body temperature and en-vironmental pH on the excystation and preservation of the ability to infection of rodent gastric cryptosporidia oocysts. The infectivity of unexcysted oocysts was further examined. Immunodeficiency SCID mice (Mus musculus) were infected with C. proliferans oocysts, then their faeces were collected and individual experi-ments were performed. The effect of temperature on excystation, when oocysts were placed in water baths at the appropriate temperature (32-44 °C) and the effect of pH, when oocysts were exposed to solutions of different pH (2-7), was investi-gated. Cell separation was then performed using a flow cytometer and the values obtained were recorded in the tables. The most oocysts excysted at 40 °C and pH 7. An autopsy of infected mice was also performed to determine the infectivity of oo-cysts from various parts of the digestive system. All taken oocyst samples were infectious for the subsequent host. Infection experiments, which were further car-ried out revealed, that unexcysted oocysts exposed to hypochlorite and laboratory temperatures retain their ability to infect. In contrast, the oocyst sporozoites that excysted were susceptible to both hypochlorite and room temperature, thus losing the ability infect the subsequent host.
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Exprese proteinu NS5 viru klíšťové encefalitidy v lidských neurálních buňkách
JAKLOVÁ, Kateřina
This study focuses on the detection of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) NS5 protein in infected and NS5-transfected DAOY HTB-186 human neural cells. TBEV NS5 protein was shown to localize mainly on the membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum. An interesting finding was also nuclear localization, which is supported by the obtained data from both, confocal microscopy and subcellular fractionation.
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Úloha osy PD-1/PD-L1 při infekci \kur{Borrelia burgdorferi} u myší
PALOUNKOVÁ, Anna
Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, induces upregulation of inhibitory immune checkpoint PD-L1 in mice. We studied if the blockade of PD-1/PD-L1 axis by neutralizing antibodies influences the proliferation of T lymphocytes and cytokine milieu in imunological synapsis between murine dendritic cells and T cells in vitro.
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Detection of Lyme disease spirochetes and Borrelia miyamotoi in samples of Czech patients
KAPURANI, Helena
Lyme borreliosis is a disease caused by infection of selected members of the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex, a genus that keeps growing. With time, more and more members of this complex were identified as pathogenic for humans. This work aims to detect the spectrum of Borrelia spirochetes present in samples of Czech patients diagnosed with Lyme disease. Analysis will be used to suggest a tendency between the presence of the spirochetes' DNA found and the diagnosis of the patients.
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Kryptosporidiové infekce veverek
ŠVAJLENOVÁ, Kamila
We investigated the Cryptosporidium spp. infecting red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) in 27 areas in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Examination of 157 faecal samples revealed oocysts of Cryptosporidium sp. in 14 animals (21.98%). Phylogenetic analysis of small subunit rRNA, actin and gp60 gene sequences showed the presence of Cryptosporidium infection in 14 animals. Sequence analysis revealed the presence of Cryptosporidium ferret genotype in all positive samples. Three gp60 subtypes, VIIIb, VIIIc and novel subtype VIIIe were detected within screed population of squirrels. The occurrence of Cryptosporidium infection did not differ between the age or sex of animals. Only juvenile animals shed microscopically detectable amount of oocysts. The infection intensity ranged from 100000 to 250000 oocysts per gram. None of the naturally infected squirrels developed clinical signs in the present study. Cryptosporidium chipmunk genotype I obtained from naturally infected Eastern gray squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Italy and used for experiments was infectious for mice (Mus musculus; strains SCID, C57BL/6J, CD4-/- and CD8-/-), ferret (Mustela putorius furo) and red squirrels, with a prepatent period of 10, 4, 4, 4, 4 and 11 days post- infection, respectively. Oocysts of the Cryptosporidium chipmunk genotype I measured 5,64 (5,50-5,89) × 5,37 (4,86-5,60) m (shape index 1,05 (1,01-1,14)). All mice strains except SCID clear infection within 8-18 days post-infection. Clinical cryptosporidiosis was observed in SCID mice, ferret and squirrels, but only squirrels suffer severe diarrhoea and the infection was lethal for them. SCID mice represent the suitable laboratory model host for maintenance of Cryptosporidium chipmunk genotype I.
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Čerstvé a měkké sýry jako potenciální zdroj \kur{Encephalitozoon cuniculi}
VECKOVÁ, Tereza
The aim of this work was to determine the occurrence and prevalence of Encephalitozoon cuniculi in goat's milk and faeces, and to evaluate the effect of pasteurization and curdling in goat cheese production on the infectivity of E. cuniculi spores for immunodeficient (SCID, CD4-/- and CD8-/-) and immunocompetent (BALB / ca C57BL/6) mice. Under experimental conditions, spores of E. cuniculi genotype II (557,000 spores in 1 g of cheese) remain viable in fresh cheeses treated by pasteurization at 72 ° C for 20 seconds and are able to cause infection in laboratory animals. Using nested PCR, specific DNA of E. cuniculi genotype I and genotype II was detected in eight of the nine goat cheeses purchased from various producers/breeders in the Czech Republic in the amount of 1 to 202 spores per 1 g of cheese. These cheeses were fed to immunodeficient and immunocompetent mice at a dose of 60 g/mouse within 24 days. The results of the experiment showed that spores of E. cuniculi genotype I and II remain viable in both fresh and soft cheeses and are able to cause infection in laboratory animals. Based on the results obtained, fresh and soft cheeses should be considered as a potential source of E. cuniculi infection for humans.
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