Infectious Diseases
Suzan Şahin and Şirin Menekşe
Central nervous system nocardiosis is rare but has high morbidity and mortality. Nocardia is found in soil, decomposing vegetation, and other organic matter, as well as in water as saprophytes. The infection usually occurs through direct inoculation of the microorganism from a skin injury or via inhalation. The pulmonary form (...) Read More
Özlem Akdoğan and others
Leptospirosis is one of the zoonotic infections seen in Turkey. Most cases demonstrate a mild clinical course, and the disease is self-limiting. Complaints such as fever, headache, myalgia, nausea, and vomiting are the most common reasons for presentation. Severe cases can have polymyositis, liver involvement, icterus and (...) Read More
Necati Mumcu and others
Although Fasciola hepatica infects sheep and cattle, it can sometimes be an accidental host in humans. Clinically, fever, abdominal pain, intermittent jaundice, intrahepatic cystic abscess, eosinophilic cholecystitis, and extrahepatic cholecystitis are seen most frequently. The diagnosis can be made by serology or by clinical improvement (...) Read More
Şirin Menekşe and others
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a Gram-negative, non-fermentative aerobic bacterium that infects patients, especially with severe comorbidities such as hematological malignancies. It is commonly found in the environment and hospital settings. The most common clinical presentations are pneumonia and bloodstream infections (...) Read More
Bahar Madran and others
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
Buket Ertük Şengel and others
A cute otitis media (AOM) primarily occurs in childhood. While the incidence of AOM is 45% to 60% in children under the age of five, this rate was 3.1 to 3.5 in adults aged 15-24. The most common causative bacterial pathogens are (...) Read More
Cihan Semet and others
18-year-old male patient presented to our emergency room (ER) with complaints of swelling and temperature increase in the right wrist, pain in the right knee, and a rash without any itchiness on the palms and soles continuing for a week. He had no known systemic disease or Read More