The Official Journal of the Turkish Society Of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLİMİK)
Scrub typhus is an emerging infectious disease in India and is being reported from almost every state. It is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi and is transmitted by the bite of infected larvae of the mite Leptotrombidium deliense. It is a (...) Read More
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is one of the major causes of chronic liver diseases worldwide. Around 296 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection in 2019, with 1.5 million new infections each year and more than 820 thousand people losing their life because of hepatitis B virus (HBV) related complications. Chronic HBV (...) Read More
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most common cause of mortality among healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). In the United States of America (USA), one-third of the fatalities among HAIs are caused (...) Read More
At the beginning of the 21st century, three deadly epidemics related to coronaviruses have struck the world. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) originated in 2002, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2012, and finally COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in December 2019. COVID-19 (...) Read More
At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It spread rapidly, resulting in a pandemic throughout the world. In February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named the disease COVID-19. Studies reported that COVID-19 mostly progressed with asymptomatic (...) Read More
The number of cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to threaten the world by increasing day by day. COVID-19 primarily affects the respiratory system and the most common clinical symptoms are fever, cough (...) Read More
Fungal infections account for about 20% of all microbiological infections in critically ill patients. Candida species are the most common fungi in intensive care units (ICU) and mostly C. albicans. However, the rate of non-albicans Candida species such as C. tropicalis, C. krusei, C. parapsilosis, C. glabrata which are more resistant to antifungal therapy (...) Read More
Estimations about confirmed COVID-19 deaths may be limited to the testing capacity and frequency, along with correct and complete reporting of the cause of deaths (1). The number of confirmed and probable COVID-19 deaths may not include people who (...) Read More
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes the disease called the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 as a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and on the same day, the Republic of Turkey (...) Read More
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declined as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. The initial diagnosis of the disease was made in a very complex process. In addition to treating and preventing its spread, vaccination (...) Read More
Hepatitis C virus (HCV), defined as a non-A non-B hepatitis agent in 1989, is a hepatotropic, noncytopathic, positive-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus from the family Flaviviridae. HCV infection is an acute or chronic necroinflammatory (...) Read More
The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is caused by a RNA virus (Nairovirus) Bunyaviridae family. It is generally transmitted by tick bite (Hyalomma marginatum), particularly in spring and summer, and the blood (...= Read More
Influenza constitutes one of the major threats to the health system, affecting up to 10% of the world’s population every year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database, between 1999-2015, 291,000-646,000 deaths caused by influenza-associated respiratory disease(...) Read More
Biofilm formation is one of the most important virulence factors for Candida species. Biofilm can be defined as a whole microbial community formed by microorganisms (...) Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic emerged in Wuhan in December 2019 and spread rapidly all over the world. The number of cases worldwide reached a total of 150 million as of May 2021. While 14% of these cases required hospitalization with severe pneumonia (...) Read More
Diabetes is a widespread metabolic disease in the world. Diabetic foot, which develops in cases where diabetes control is not provided, is a clinical picture that impairs the quality of life of cases and sometimes leads to undesirable consequences including limb amputation. The global prevalence (...) Read More
The SARS-CoV-2 infection has influenced the whole world and every day, both the number of cases and deaths related to the COVID-19 pandemic continue to rise. Eighty-one percent of COVID-19 cases are mild, 14% are serious and 5% are critical. Although the overall mortality rate was 2.3%, mortality (...) Read More
The clinical findings of SARS-CoV-2 infection are heterogeneous, and the duration of viral RNA shedding varies on the age of the patient, severity of the disease, and type of the sample. For that reason, a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of viral shedding is critical for (...) Read More
SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted via the inhalation of infected droplets or through direct contact with contaminated surfaces. Aerosol-generating procedures can also lead to airborne transmission. Healthcare workers (HCWs) are at higher risks for infections than the general (...) Read More
Infective endocarditis (IE), among the most common life-threatening infection, is a serious disease causing substantial morbidity and mortality. Determining at-risk patients and following them up closely with appropriate interventions are necessary to decrease complications and mortality. Treatment response to infective endocarditis is followed up with the combination of relief of symptoms, blood cultures, echocardiographic investigations and laboratory tests. A simple and widely available test Read More