The Official Journal of the Turkish Society Of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLİMİK)

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Evaluation of Inflammation-Based Prognostic Risk Scores in Predicting in-Hospital Mortality Risk in COVID-19 Patients: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study
Original Article

Evaluation of Inflammation-Based Prognostic Risk Scores in Predicting in-Hospital Mortality Risk in COVID-19 Patients: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study

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

Original Article

Evaluation of Blood Stream and Biliary Tract Infections Related to Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiography and Prophylaxis Given in Patients with Malignancy

Halime Araz and others

Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) is an invasive procedure used in patients with obstructive jaundice in the progress of some malignancies to reduce bilirubin levels, improve liver functions, prolong survival and enable other treatments. The procedure is critical because of its potential complications. The most common (...) Read More

Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment of Fasciola hepatica Infection
Case Report

Challenges in Diagnosis and Treatment of Fasciola hepatica Infection

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

Four Human Mpox Cases from Turkey
Case Report

Four Human Mpox Cases from Turkey

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

Commentary

An Update on the Imported Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Europe

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

Using ChatGPT in the Medical Field:  A Narrative
Commentary

Using ChatGPT in the Medical Field: A Narrative

Ali Pekşen and ChatGPT

ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is a pre-trained language model developed by artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment company OpenAI. It is based on the GPT architecture, which uses deep learning to generate human-like text. The model is trained on a large (...) Read More

Why to Publish in IDCM

Murat Akova, the Editor-in-Chief of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, introduces the journal and invites the authors to submit their research articles and cases to the journal.