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The effect of PM2.5 remained significant (%change 21.3; 95%CI 5.4, 39.5) after adjustment for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) co-exposure (a marker of traffic sources) and when limiting to primary diagnosis of PE (%change 19.1; 95%CI 4.2, 36.1). Age, sex and comorbid conditions did not modify the association. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggested a positive association between short-term exposure to PM2.5 and pulmonary embolism during the warm period of the year while no evidence emerged for deep vein thrombosis. Cerdulatinib mouse Matching of HLA gene polymorphisms by high-resolution DNA sequence analysis is gold standard for determining compatibility between patient and donor for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Single molecule sequencing (PacBio or MinION) is a newest (third) generation sequencing approach. MinION is a nanopore sequencing platform, which provides long targeted DNA sequences. The long reads provide unambiguous phasing, but the initial high error profile prevented its use in high-impact applications such as Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) typing for HLA matching of donor and recipient in the transplantation setting. Ongoing developments on instrumentation and basecalling software have improved the per-base accuracy of 1D2 nanopore reads tremendously. In the current study, we used 2 validation panels of samples covering 70 of the 71 known HLA class I allele groups to compare 3rd field sequences obtained by MinION with Sanger sequence-based typing (SSBT) showing a 100% concordance between both data sets. In addition, the first validation panel was used to set the acceptance criteria for the use of MinION in a routine setting. The acceptance criteria were subsequently confirmed with the 2nd validation panel. In summary, present study describes validation and implementation of nanopore sequencing HLA class I typing method and illustrates that nanopore sequencing technology has advanced to a point where it can be used in routine diagnostics with high accuracy. The results of EML4-ALK testing are critical to manage ALK inhibitor treatment. Thus, the accurate detection of ALK rearrangement is increasingly becoming a matter of serious concern. To address this issue, a long-term EML4-ALK proficiency testing (PT) scheme was launched in China since 2015, serving as an educational tool for assessing and improving the testing quality of EML4-ALK fusion detection. Responses across 20 different PT samples interrogating 3 different variants and wild-type samples were collected between 2015 and 2019. Performance was analyzed by evaluating the detection methods, kits, and pre-analytic practices used in order to further display the landscape of changing conditions of the reliability of EML4-ALK testing. During the five years, 3,224 results reported from 988 laboratories were evaluated, with an overall error rate of 5.36%. Along with an increasing number of participating laboratories, the error rate within each of the different methodologies showed a significantly downward trend over the years. No obvious differences in the error rates were found regarding the testing methods or kit manufacturers. Moreover, the individual performance of the laboratories improved when they participated in more PT scheme rounds. The data demonstrated that the performance of individual Chinese laboratories for EML4-ALK testing continuously improved over time by participating PT schemes, regardless of their methodology. However, care must be taken in standardized operations and validations. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a systemic malignancy of monoclonal plasma cells that accounts for 10% of hematologic cancers. With development of highly effective therapies for MM, minimal residual disease assessment (MRD) has emerged an important end point for management decisions. Currently, serological assays lack the sensitivity for MRD assessment, and invasive bone marrow sampling with flow cytometry or molecular methods has emerged as the gold standard. We report a sensitive and robust targeted mass spectrometry proteomics method to detect MRD in serum, without the need of invasive, sequential bone marrow aspirates. The method detects immunoglobulin (Ig) derived clonotypic tryptic peptides predicted by sequencing the clonal plasma cell Ig genes. A heavy isotope labeled Ig internal standard is added to patient serum at a known concentration, the Ig is enriched in a light chain type specific manner, proteins are digested and analyzed by targeted mass spectrometry. Peptides from the constant regions of the lambda or kappa light chains, Ig heavy chains, and clonotypic peptides unique to the patient monoclonal immunoglobulins are targeted. This technique is highly sensitive and specific for the patient specific monoclonal immunoglobulins, even in samples negative by multi-parametric flow cytometry. Our method can accurately and precisely detect monoclonal protein in serum of patients treated for myeloma and has broad implications for management of hematologic patients. Determining the size, location and structure of a livestock population is an essential aspect of surveillance and research as it provides understanding of the representativeness and coverage of any project or scheme. It is an important input for a variety of epidemiological analyses, for example, allowing generation of more accurate sample size calculations for estimating prevalence or freedom from disease, cost-benefit analyses for control measures to reduce or eradicate livestock disease, or development of between-herd network models to estimate the impact of movement of animals between farms on the spread of livestock diseases. The work described here provides information on how British pig movement data was compared against other datasets related to the British pig population to define its appropriateness for defining pig holding demographics. The data were then used to identify the location of pig holdings and the estimated herd size (split into five categories). Two methods are described that were used tion. Crown V. All rights reserved.In 2015, a case of canine rabies in Arequipa, Peru indicated the re-emergence of rabies virus in the city. Despite mass dog vaccination campaigns across the city and reactive ring vaccination and other control activities around positive cases (e.g. elimination of unowned dogs), the outbreak has spread. Here we explore how the urban landscape of Arequipa affects the movement patterns of free-roaming dogs, the main reservoirs of the rabies virus in the area. We tracked 23 free-roaming dogs using Global Positioning System (GPS) collars. We analyzed the spatio-temporal GPS data using the time- local convex hull method. Dog movement patterns varied across local environments. We found that water channels, an urban feature of Arequipa that are dry most of the year, promote movement. Dogs that used the water channels extensively move on average 7 times further (p = 0.002) and 1.2 times more directionally (p = 0.027) than dogs that do not use the water channels at all. They were also 1.3 times faster on average, but this difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.