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Original Article
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2024
Rüveyda Korkmazer and others
Urinary tract infection (UTI) affects approximately 150 million people worldwide every year and is encountered in all age groups. Escherichia coli, Klebsiella spp., group B streptococcus, and Enterococcus spp. are the most frequent species. The increase in antibiotic resistance rates among these agents leads to failures in empirical treatment and causes an increase in mortality, morbidity rates, and costs. Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2024
Mervenur Demir and others
The global increase in the rate of multi-drug resistant (MDR) bacterial infections in recent years is an important public health problem that limits the therapeutic options. The issue becomes particularly critical in cases of bloodstream infections (BSI) in which delay is associated with high mortality rates. Bacteria grown in blood cultures (BC) must be subcultured on the solid media (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2024
Merve Arslan and others
Infective endocarditis is a clinical condition that affects the endocardial surface of the heart, involving natural or prosthetic heart valves and intracardiac devices. It is a high-cost and high-mortality infectious disease with an increasing incidence and is more frequently diagnosed with advancing diagnostic methods. Along with well-defined cardiac (previous endocarditis, presence of intracardiac prosthetic materials, (...) Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2024
Tuba Kuruoğlu and others
Reprocessing a disposable medical device in which sterility deteriorates without contact with the blood and body fluids is called “reprocessing.” If it is ready for use by being processed again for the same or another patient, it is named reuse. The increasing number of blood-borne diseases led to the broader use of disposable instruments. Cardiac catheters, (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2024
Pınar Korkmaz and others
Antimicrobial resistance can lead to morbidity and mortality in serious infections. Therefore, antimicrobial resistance has been accepted as a global public health problem in the 21st century. Unnecessary and excessive use of drugs is a serious problem in our country as well as in the rest of the world. Unnecessarily used drugs play an important role (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2024
Gülşah Tunçer and others
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection is a global health problem that the World Health Organization (WHO) reported 296 million individuals diagnosed with CHB, and 820,000 died worldwide in 2019. In our country, as per the Türkiye Viral Hepatitis Prevention and Control Program for 2018-2023, there have been 3.3 million patients with CHB infection in Türkiye. Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2024
Ramazan Çakmak and Murat Bektaş
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. Clinical findings of COVID-19 are ranged from asymptomatic to severe pneumoniae, acute respiratory distress syndrome, multiorgan failure and death. A severe COVID-19 course is associated with a higher inflammatory state (cytokine storm) due to the excessive release (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2024
Salih Keskin and others
Contact tracing has been recognized as a critical process in controlling infectious disease epidemics. Its objectives include early identification of potentially infectious cases and prevention of the emergence of new clusters. In the context of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, in-hospital contact-tracing efforts (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2024
Gülşah Tunçer and Kadir Görkem Güçlü
Artificial intelligence models have influenced many branches of science in recent years. It is used in various departments of medicine. ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a text-based artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI. ChatGPT can be used in many areas of medicine, such as to generate medical text, answer medical questions, provide recommendations for diagnosis and treatment (...) Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Grace Fisler and others
Elevated procalcitonin levels are associated with increased bacterial infection rates in children and adults. Identification of bacterial infection in previous studies has used procalcitonin thresholds of 0.5 ng/mL-1.0 ng/mL. Procalcitonin level elevations have been reported in COVID-19 patients (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Oğuz Evlice and others
Acute lung injury and sepsis are among the severe clinical outcomes of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Risk factors raise fatality rates, increase the burden on countries’ healthcare facilities, and significantly increase health expenditures due to prolonged inpatient periods. Several studies have revealed a severe illness course in COVID-19 patients, especially in males, older age, and comorbid (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Işıl Deniz Alıravcı and others
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is an enveloped, single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus in the genus Metapneumovirus. In 2016, the Pneumoviridae family replaced Paramyxoviridae as a new classification for this virus. Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Özge Özgen-Top and others
Influenza-like illness (ILI) can be caused by a range of respiratory viruses in adults. Influenza is one of the most important respiratory viruses that affects all age groups and can lead to hospitalizations. Severe influenza and complications can cause significant morbidity and mortality during pandemics, epidemics, and sporadic outbreaks. Therefore, influenza (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Deniz Gür-Altunay and Pınar Yürük-Atasoy
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is an important public health problem worldwide. It is the most important cause of acute and chronic liver disease and hepatocellular cancer. Hepatitis B infection is diagnosed by the detection of HBsAg in the serum or plasma. Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) infection is defined as the persistence of (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Nilden Dayan and others
Posaconazole is a systemic extended-spectrum triazole mainly licensed for prophylaxis of invasive fungal infections (IFIs) in high-risk patients. Three formulations of posaconazole are currently available, including an oral suspension (40 mg/mL), a delayed-release gastric-resistant (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Yağmur Eylül Doğantürk and others
Human adenovirus (HAdV) is a non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA virus that causes self-limiting respiratory system infections, gastrointestinal tract infections, conjunctivitis, and meningitis. These infections are generally observed throughout the year with no seasonal distribution. Despite being self-limiting, HAdV infections (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Hatun Öztürk-Çerik and others
Brucellosis is a widespread zoonosis transmitted to humans, mainly through direct or indirect contact with infected animals. The main endemic areas are the Mediterranean region, Middle East, Central Asia, China, India, sub-Saharan Africa, and Central and South America. Brucellosis is a systemic infection with a broad clinical spectrum (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Emrah Emiral and others
After the declaration of the pandemic on March 11, 2020, by the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 771 million people were affected by COVID-19 globally, and about 7 million deaths have occurred as of the third week of November 2023. In Turkey, the first COVID-19 case was identified on March 11, 2020 (...) Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2023
Semiha Solak-Grassie and others
The development of a vaccine was a big step in the fight against COVID-19. However, with the introduction of vaccines in a short time, there were many people in society and among healthcare workers (HCWs) who did not want to get vaccinated. Read More
Original Article
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2023
Elif Mukime Sarıcaoğlu and others
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, with the increasing number of cases, has been a major health challenge worldwide. In addition to being a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection maintains its importance because of prolonged symptoms after acute disease in the post-infectious period. Read More