Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To explore the distribution of pathogens isolated from the schizophrenia patients with urinary tract infection and analyze the expressions of NOD-like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3)/interleukin (IL) -1β in peripheral blood.
METHODS A total of 602 patients with schizophrenia who were treated in Hangzhou Seventh People′s Hospital from Jan. 2020 to Jan. 2023 were recruited as the research subjects and were divided into the infection group with 30 cases and the non-infection group with 572 cases according to the status of urinary tract infection. The distribution of pathogens causing the urinary tract infection were analyzed, the drug susceptibility testing was performed, and the expression levels of peripheral blood NLRP3, nuclear factorκB(NF-κB) and IL-1β were compared between the two groups of patients. The values of the single and joint detection of the three indexes in diagnosis of urinary tract infection in the schizophrenia patients were analyzed.
RESULTS Totally 48 strains of pathogens were isolated from 30 schizophrenia patients with urinary tract infection; the gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli and gram-positive bacteria Enterococcus faecalis were dominant among the pathogens, while the fungi were less common. The E.coli strains were highly resistant to piperacillin and levofloxacin, while the strains were sensitive to imipenem and amikacin. The E.faecalis strains were highly resistant to oxacillin and erythromycin, while the strains were sensitive to nitrofurantoin and tigecycline. The expression levels of peripheral blood NLRP3, NF-κB and IL-1β of the infection group were higher than those of the non-infection group(P < 0.05). The area under curve (AUC) of the joint detection of peripheral blood NLRP3, NF-κB and IL-1β was higher than that of the single detection in diagnosis of urinary tract infection in the schizophrenia patients(P < 0.05), the sensitivity of the joint detection was 93.33%, the specificity 89.32%.
CONCLUSIONS E.coli and E.faecalis are the predominant species of pathogens isolated from the schizophrenia patients with urinary tract infection. The E.coli strains are sensitive to imipenem and amikacin. The E.faecalis strains are sensitive to nitrofurantoin and tigecycline. The NLRP3/IL-1β pathways are activated, and the joint detection of peripheral blood NLRP3, NF-κB and IL-1β has high diagnostic value.