The Official Journal of the Turkish Society Of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLİMİK)
The uncontrolled and unmonitored overuse of antimicrobials in healthcare, agriculture, and animal husbandry has led to a global health crisis, resulting in resistance to both commonly used and reserve antibiotics. Gram-negative bacteria have developed resistance to higher-tier agents, posing [...] Read More
Brucellosis, also known as “Mediterranean fever,” “Malta fever,” and “undulant fever,” is one of the most important zoonotic infections worldwide (1). The disease is caused by Brucella spp., which are small, non-motile, non-spore-forming slow-growing, facultatively intracellular Gram-negative [...] Read More
Diarrheal diseases remain a significant global public health problem. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), diarrhea causes approximately 443,832 deaths among children under 5 years of age and 50,851 deaths among children aged 5–9 years [...] Read More
Over the past decades, research in the fields of human and veterinary health has faced increasingly complex challenges resulting from global environmental and geopolitical changes, which may overshadow “traditional” health issues. Read More
A virus must survive in the environment outside its host to spread. Its persistence, and thus the extent and speed of transmission, depends on three key factors: viral characteristics, the nature of the surface it contaminates [...] Read More
T he global rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria has emerged as a major public health concern. To address this issue, the World Health Organization (WHO) published its bacterial priority pathogens list in [...] Read More
Under typical circumstances, vaccine development and implementation timelines require at least a decade to progress sequentially through the stages of discovery research and preclinical development [...] Read More
A 71-year-old construction worker presented to the outpatient clinic with worsening nodules on his left hand associated with cutaneous fistulization, accompanied by edema [...] Read More
Although case numbers of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have declined since the virus first emerged on December 29, 2019, in Wuhan, China, it has caused significant morbidity and mortality world-wide. As of June 11, 2025, more than 7 [...] Read More
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most pressing global public health challenges, and has been classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) among the top ten threats facing humanity. Recent global [...] Read More
Bloodstream infections (BSIs) occur when microorganisms overcome the host's normal defense mechanisms and spread through the bloodstream. These infections can lead to serious outcomes, such a [...] Read More
Leuconostoc mesenteroides is a Gram-positive, catalase-negative, facultatively anaerobic coccus belonging to the family Leuconostocaceae (formerly classified within Lactobacillaceae in some taxonomies). It is not a common constituent of the human [...] Read More
Robert Koch presented his findings on March 24, 1882, at the Berlin Physiological Society, demonstrating the tubercle bacillus as the causative agent of tuberculosis [...] Read More
