Infectious Diseases
Pınar Korkmaz and Neşe Demirtürk
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) remains a major threat to global public health, affecting 296 million people worldwide. CHB increases the risk of cirrhosis, liver failure and hepatocellular carcinoma, causing liver-related morbidity and mortality. All these risks can be prevented with antiviral treatment. Although there is no curative treatment for CHB today the virus can be effectively controlled with existing (...) Read More
Muhammed Fatih Karaşın and others
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a strain of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, spread rapidly around the world and was defined as a pandemic on March 12, 2020, by the World Health Organization. As of June 2023, more than 767 million cases were confirmed globally, along with 6.9 million deaths. Read More
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
Hinpetch Daungsupawong and Viroj Wiwanitkit
Tunçer et al. brought us interesting observations from the study “How Reliable is ChatGPT as a Novel Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology?”. In conclusion, 200 questions about infectious diseases from different platforms were used in the study, along with recommendations from reliable sources. The replies were predicated on (...) Read More
Uğur Önal and others
Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, is the most common vector-borne disease in Europe and North America, caused by the spirochete Borrelia species, which can be transmitted through the bite of an infected black-legged tick. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data on Lyme disease in the United States showed (...) Read More
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
Mustafa Deniz and others
Eosinophilic cellulitis (EC) is a rare inflammatory skin condition with fewer than 200 documented cases in the medical literature. There are only a limited number of case reports available from our country. The prevalence and incidence of EC are unknown. The disease is characterized by pruritic, non-purulent, erythematous plaques (...) Read More
Sevil Alkan and Esra Gürbüz
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory infection caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from the Coronaviridae family. MERS coronavirus was first identified as the etiologic agent from a patient living in Saudi Arabia in 2012, and it is the sixth human coronavirus . After the first case, the infection was detected in Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. So far, all MERS-CoV cases worldwide have been associated with a travel history (...) Read More
Mustafa Güldan and others
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused more than 6 million deaths worldwide, and vaccination remains to be the most effective way to reduce the deaths in addition to infection control measures in the community. The Turkish Ministry of Health offered two types of vaccines (...) Read More
Murat Erdem and others
The standard method to detect SARS-CoV-2 has been real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Regardless of its high sensitivity and specificity, this method has some drawbacks as it requires complex and expensive equipment, extensive user training, (...) Read More
Murat Akova
There have always been natural disasters in the Anatolian Peninsula, sometimes large enough to lead to vanishing civilizations. The recent strong twin earthquakes that occurred within a day in the Southeastern part of Türkiye (...) Read More
Çaşıt Olgun Çelik and others
An acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19), caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), has spread from China worldwide and caused a pandemic that brought severe medical, social, and economic problems. The COVID-19 infection results in various clinical presentations ranging from an asymptomatic (...) Read More
Aynur Atilla and others
Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is necrotizing fasciitis of genital or perianal areas. Typically, FG is an infection of polymicrobial origin and has higher mortality rates if treatment is not initiated earlier. The main etiological factors are colorectal (30%-50%) and genitourinary origins (20%-40%), including anorectal infections, (...) Read More
Esma Eryılmaz-Eren and others
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has caused more than 660 million cases and more than six million deaths worldwide (1). COVID-19 can cause different clinical situations ranging from asymptomatic to life-threatening infections. Patients (...) Read More
Tuğba Yanık-Yalçın and others
Staphylococcus aureus colonizes the skin and mucosa of humans. Infections because of S. aureus can range from skin infections to potentially fatal conditions like pneumonia, sepsis, and endocarditis. S. aureus is a common cause of nosocomial and community-acquired bloodstream infections worldwide. Because of biofilm (...) Read More
Çiğdem Erol and others
Candida species are major sources of morbidity and mortality in healthcare settings. These infections are predominantly connected with medical procedures. The five most prevalent pathogens- Candida albicans, Candida glabrata, Candida tropicalis, Candida parapsilosis, and Candida krusei – are responsible for (...) Read More
Fatihan Pınarlık and others
Fascioliasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by liver flukes, Fasciola hepatica or Fasciola gigantica, and affects at least 2.4 million people worldwide, according to World Health Organization (WHO) estimates (1). Sheep and cattle are the natural definitive hosts of F. hepatica infection; therefore, fascioliasis is common in sheep-raising (...) Read More
Emine Coşkun and others
With the reports of patients with mpox (formerly monkeypox) outside Africa in April 2022, a second epidemic fear emerged around the world following the coronavirus disease 2019. From the onset of the mpox outbreak as of December 25, 2022, (...) Read More
Özgür Kurt and others
The refugee crisis is one of the leading problems of the world today. Factors such as political unrest and wars, drought and famine associated with global warming, and overcrowded neighborhoods after the influx of refugees may seriously aggravate this problem. According to the United Nations Refugee Committee, there are almost 27 million refugees in the world today; Syria, Venezuela, and (...) Read More
Özlem Kurt-Azap
Streptococcus pyogenes, Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus (GAS), is a Gram-positive coccus easily diagnosed in microbiology laboratories and generally causes mild diseases such as tonsillopharyngitis and pyodermas. However, severe, life-threatening illnesses called invasive GAS (iGAS) diseases may also, uncommonly (...) Read More