The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently a major concern worldwide. Guidelines have been issued regarding precautions for healthcare workers taking care of SARS-CoV-2 infected patients. In spite of accurate observance of infection control measures, including contact precautions, we report an OXA-23-producing Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak in the 5 Intensive Care Units of 10 beds each in our tertiary care teaching hospital.Continuous high-risk (HR) human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is an essential factor for cervical carcinoma and its precancerous lesions. There are differences in HPV distribution among different countries, regions and ethnic groups. The aim of this research was to reveal the epidemiological characteristics of HPV in Chongqing, China. Twenty-three HPV genotypes of 13788 women aged 18 to 78 were screened by PCR-reverse dot blot hybridization. The total HPV-positive rate was 19.9% (2745/13788), while the positive rates of HR, and low-risk (LR) HPV were 17.3% (2379/13788), and 4.6% (638/13788), respectively. In addition to cervical cancer (CC) and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) patients, the HPV infection rates of infertile women and women with gynecological diseases were markedly higher than those of healthy people. The HPV and HR-HPV infection rates in the different age groups showed statistically significant differences, and the prevalence peaks appeared in women under 20 years and over 50 years of age. HPV-52, HPV-16 and HPV-58 ranked as the top 3 most common subtypes among women in Chongqing. The results of this research provide epidemiological information on HPV infection in Chongqing. These data constitute valuable evidence for the prevention and management of cervical carcinoma and the development of HPV vaccines.Food animal production is important for every country. Several antibiotic agents are used in poultry farming to reduce the economic losses arising from mostly untested, infectious diseases. HIF activation This continued study was performed to determine the prevalence of antibiotic resistant Salmonella in broiler chickens, poultry farmers, and Salmonella-bacteremia patients. A total of 121 Salmonella isolates were collected from the Thai provinces of Khon Kaen (65 isolates), Ratchaburi (43 isolates), and Phayao (13 isolates). Salmonella from chicken showed a high rate of resistance to nalidixic acid and tetracycline. Sixty-four percent of Salmonella carried class 1 integron (intI1 gene positive). Among 121 Salmonella isolates, there were 15 serotypes, with Enteritidis the most common. A clonal relationship between the chicken and human isolates was demonstrated by three molecular typing methods Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus Polymerase Chain Reaction; Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis; and High-Throughput, Multilocus Sequence Typing. A spread of the sequence type 11 (ST11) clone was found between chickens and humans. This study revealed a large-scale Salmonella outbreak in Thailand, a link between resistant bacteria from poultry farms and vertical transmission through the food chain, and a horizontal transmission of resistance genes. These results can be used for future surveillance and monitoring.We aimed to investigate the clonal relationships, common sequence types, and carbapenemase genes in 177 non-repetitive blood culture isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii collected from patients in three university hospitals in 2016. The molecular epidemiological characteristics of the isolates were examined with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and multilocus sequence typing (MLST) (Pasteur scheme-cpn60, fusA, gltA, pyrG, recA, rplB, rpoB). Multiplex PCR was used for investigating the carbapenemase genes; including blaOXA-23-like, blaOXA-24-like, blaOXA-48-like, blaOXA-58-like, blaIMP, blaVIM, and blaNDM. PFGE genotyping yielded 92 pulsotypes with a clustering ratio of 69.7%. According to a ≥85% similarity coefficient, 159 (90.9%) isolates were found to be clonally related. The blaOXA-23-like and blaOXA-58-like genes were identified in 100% and 28.2% of the isolates, respectively. The blaNDM gene was identified in two isolates. The MLST analysis included 54 isolates with different pulsotypes and identified 29 sequence types (STs). Most of the isolates (n=36) belonged to the international clone II (CC2); one isolate belonged to CC1, and one isolate belonged to CC164. Sixteen new STs (ST1235-ST1250) were found. Identifying both global ST2 and also a high number of new STs revealed high-level genetic diversity in A. baumannii isolates in the study population.The prognostic value of interleukin-6 in COVID-19 needs to be clarified. In this retrospective study, COVID-19 patients treated in Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University from Jan 7 to Feb 8, 2020 with measurements of serum IL-6 levels within 1 week after admission were included. Data regarding demographics, clinical characteristics, laboratory tests, complications and outcomes were collected and analyzed. Sixty-six patients included (31 females) were divided into normal group (serum IL-6 less then 10pg/mL, n=35) and abnormal group (serum IL-6 ≥ 10pg/mL, n=31). Compared with normal group, the incidences of critical cases (P less then 0.001), ARDS (P=0.001), acute cardiac injury (P=0.002), cardiac insufficiency (P=0.039), mechanical ventilation rate (P=0.002) and the mortality (P=0.021) were significantly increased in abnormal group. Serum IL-6 concentration was an independent predictor for a fatal outcome (P=0.04). The optimal cutoff value of serum IL-6 concentration for predicting fatal outcomes was 26.09 pg/mL (P less then 0.001). In COVID-19, elevated serum IL-6 levels were associated with critical illness, usage of mechanical ventilation and complications including heart injury and ARDS, and could predict a fatal outcome. Early detection of serum IL-6 levels after admission would be necessary in COVID-19 patients.FIRST PLACE Activation of DNA Damage Response and Cellular Senescence in Cardiac Fibroblasts Limit Cardiac Fibrosis After Myocardial InfarctionMasato. Shibamoto, Tomoaki Higo, Atsuhiko T. Naito, Akito Nakagawa, Tomokazu Sumida, Katsuki Okada, Taku Sakai, Yuki Kuramoto, Toshihiro Yamaguchi, Masamichi Ito, Yuki Masumura, Shuichirou Higo, Jong-Kook Lee, Shungo Hikoso, Issei Komuro, Yasushi Sakata. Int Heart J 2019; 60 (4) 944-957. SECOND PLACE Pressure Overload Impairs Cardiac Function in Long-chain Fatty Acid Transporter CD36-Knockout Mice. Kazuhiro Nakatani, Daisaku Masuda, Takuya Kobayashi, Masami Sairyo, Yinghong Zhu, Takeshi Okada, Atsuhiko T. Naito, Tohru Ohama, Masahiro Koseki, Toru Oka, Hiroshi Akazawa, Makoto Nishida, Issei Komuro, Yasushi Sakata, Shizuya Yamashita. Int Heart J 2019; 60 (1) 159-167. THIRD PLACE Comparison of Clinical Outcomes between the Ostial Versus Non-Ostial Culprit in Proximal Left Anterior Descending Artery Acute Myocardial Infarction. Kei Yamamoto, Kenichi Sakakura, Naoyuki Akashi, Yusuke Watanabe, Masamitsu Noguchi, Yousuke Taniguchi, Hiroshi Wada, Shin-ichi Momomura, Hideo Fujita.