End of Year, Editorial 2021
With the current issue of the Journal, we will have left our 3rd year behind. So far, we have published 9 issues including highly interesting articles in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology (...) Read More
Trends of COVID 19 Vaccines: International Collaboration and Visualized Analysis
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
Do the Most Cited Web Sources Provide Proper Information on Influenza Vaccination?
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 (...) Read More
Listeria Bacteremia: Don’t Underestimate Gastroenteritis in Elderly
Listeria monocytogenes is a rare, self-limiting cause of gastroenteritis in healthy adults. It is generally transmitted through foods such as meat, raw vegetables, milk, and dairy products. It can cause life-threatening invasive infections in (...) Read More
Reviewers-2021
The Editors sincerely thank to all reviewers of IDCM for their generous contribution to the Journal. The quality of the Journal depends on their valuable expertise. Ahmet Çagkan İnkaya, Ankara, Turkey Ali Acar Ankara,Turkey Alpay Azap Ankara, Turkey Alper Şener, İzmir, Turkey Aysel Kocagül-Çelikbaş, Çorum,Turkey Aysun Benli, İstanbul, Turkey Ayten Kadanalı, İstanbul, Turkey Banu […] Read More
All-Cause Excess Mortality in 2020: The Example of Bursa City in Turkey
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
Evaluation of Regulatory T Cells in Chronic Hepatitis C Patients
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
Comparison of Crystal Violet Staining Assay and XTT Methods in the Evaluation of Biofilm Formation in Candida parapsilosis Candidemia Isolates
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 producing extracellular polymers and clustering in the matrix (...) Read More
Refik Saydam: A Pioneer in the Fight Against Infectious Diseases
Refik Saydam (1881-1942), MD, who served as the Minister of Health for 15 years in the early period of the republic, is a well-known physician and politician who is being remembered during the current pandemic, especially in terms of fighting against epidemics (...) Read More
Comparison of Clinical Characteristics and Prognostic Laboratory Findings of COVID-19 Patients by Age Groups
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
Diagnostic Value of Non-specific Clinical and Laboratory Findings in Patients Suspected of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever in an Endemic Region
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
A Rare Case of Otitis Media-Associated Polymicrobial Anaerobic Meningitis and Brain Abscess
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
Virtual Learning Opportunity During COVID-19 Pandemic: Comparison of Virtual (2021) and Face to Face (2019) Conferences of Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
About the last 10-year if not older, electronic learning as a training method in infectious diseases (ID) and clinical microbiology (CM) was defined as an area to be improved. In a survey published in 2017 by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology (...) Read More
