Case Report
Case Report
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2023
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
Case Report
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2023
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
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2022
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
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2022
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
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2022
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
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2022
Süda Tekin and others
Clostridioides difficile infections (CDIs) can present in various clinical forms, ranging from an asymptomatic carrier state to pseudomembranous colitis (PMC), and are recognized as one of the leading causes of diarrhea in healthcare centers. C. difficile-associated PMC is a life-threatening inflammatory bowel disease and may result in (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Sinan Çetin and Tayfun Ayeser
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019 with pneumonia cases and spread worldwide in a short time, leading to a pandemic. The cause of the disease was severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Türkkan Öztürk-Kaygusuz and others
Herpes simplex virus (HSV) is a double-stranded DNA alphaherpesvirus. HSV-1 is a common human pathogen infecting more than 60% of the world’s population, and HSV-2 infects about 11% of the population. HSV rarely causes visceral organ infections. However, some of these disseminated infections are life-threatening. Hepatitis due to HSV is a rare (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Sıla Ulus and others
Transient perivascular inflammation of the carotid artery (TIPIC) syndrome is a rare disease. Recently, characteristic imaging findings were classified. The most common appearance is the existence of focal eccentric thickening of the carotid wall and abnormal soft tissue surrounding the carotid artery, especially near the bifurcation and usually without any (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Isak Lallawmkima and others
Scrub typhus is a mite-borne infectious disease caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi, a gram-negative intracellular bacterium. It is a severe public health problem that affects mainly Asia-Pacific areas. Scrub typhus threatens one billion people and causes illness worldwide each year. Scrub typhus is prevalent in many parts of India, but specific data are not (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
Aysun Benli and others
Acinetobacter baumannii has been one of the prominent causative agents of nosocomial meningitis compared with the other Gram-positive bacteria in recent years. These bacteria are clinically important because of their higher (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
Tuğba Sarıcaoğlu and others
Gardnerella vaginalis is a facultative anaerobic, gram-variable pleomorphic rod that has been associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV). Extra-vaginal infections caused by G. vaginalis are uncommon. We present a unique case of prosthetic joint infection with G. vaginalis in a man and discuss it (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2021
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
Case Report
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2021
Halime Araz and others
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
Case Report
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2021
Mert Ahmet Kuşkucu and others
As viruses spread through a population, they mutate and change, leading to the evolution of slightly different forms or variants. SARS-CoV-2 has been mutating ever since it was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. While most of the mutations will not have a significant effect on the spread of the virus, some mutations or (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2021
İrem Akdemir-Kalkan and others
SARS-CoV-2 has affected the whole world while the number of cases is increasing rapidly. Several reinfection cases have been reported with the rise in the number of infected people. It is important to study these reinfection cases as the knowledge gained can be used in critical decisions (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2021
Adiel Cohen and others
Spinal epidural abscess is a medical emergency because of the possible development of severe complications, including irreversible paralysis. The most common infecting pathogen is Staphylococcus aureus. Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B haemolytic streptococcus, GBS) has infrequently been described Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2021
Mina Said and Ekta Tirthani
Pancytopenia has a wide differential diagnosis. One of the uncommon and often missed causes is tick-borne illnesses, mainly Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis (HME) / Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis (HGA) and Babesiosis, though the specific mechanism of the former is still unknown. Noteworthy to mention is that the tests for tick-borne diseases so far have poor validity, and also Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2020
Süda Tekin and others
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease (STD) caused by Treponema pallidum . Primary and secondary syphilis increased to a rate of 5.3 cases per 100 000 in 2013 from the rate of 2.1 per 100 000 in 2000. Neurosyphilis is the most feared and severe complication of syphilis and may occur at any time after the initial infection. Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2020
Petek Konya and Neşe Demirtürk
Bacterial meningitis is a severe infectious disease resulting in high mortality and morbidity throughout the world. The causative pathogens of bacterial meningitis depend on the patient’s age and predisposing factors such as after splenectomy or with a hyposplenic state, chronic kidney or liver disease, HIV infection, alcoholism, hypogammaglobulinaemia, diabetes mellitus and patients using immunosuppressive drugs. Read More