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Case Report
/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Derya Kormaz and others
Central nervous system (CNS) infections can develop due to bacteria, viruses, and fungi. The most common cause is bacteria. Although fungal meningitis is rare, there has been an increase in the number of cases in recent years. In the vast majority of CNS candidiasis, the primary site of infection is the lungs or skin, followed by direct or hematogenous [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Oğuz Usta and others
Rothia kristinae is a Gram-positive, non-motile facultative anaerobic coccus, a member of the Micrococcaceae family, first described in 1974 by Kloos and colleagues. Nomenclature revisited by Nouioui I. and colleagues in 2018, resulting in its reclassification as Rothia spp. (formerly classified as Kocuria kristinae). Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Abdurrahman Kaya and others
HIV infection remains a major global health concern with a considerable mortality rate, particularly in individuals with AIDS and related infections. Opportunistic infections, including tuberculosis (TB) and Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), are common due to HIV-induced [...] Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2024
Tuğba Yanık-Yalçın and others
Ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPSs) have been shown to be effective life-saving treatments for hydrocephalus. Nonetheless, the occurrence of VPS-related complications and infections necessitates close monitoring and care. Due to blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) barriers, many anti-infective therapeutics have difficulty […] Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2024
Yunus Kaygusuz and others
CGD patients are prone to recurrent, life-threatening infections caused by catalase-positive bacteria (i.e., Staphylococcus aureus, Burkholderia cepacia complex, Nocardia spp., and Serratia marcescens, and Aspergillus spp.). They can be diagnosed at any age, mostly under five. Nevertheless, they can be diagnosed in adulthood due to the incomplete penetrance and [...] Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2024
Oğuz Usta and others
Human bocavirus 1 (HBoV1) was first identified in 2005 through the molecular screening of respiratory tract samples and linked to lower respiratory tract infections in children in Sweden. It is a member of the Parvoviridae family and has been associated with a range of clinical presentations […] Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2024
Abdurrahman Kaya and others
Aspergillus spp. are ubiquitous and frequently inhaled by humans as spores in the natural environment and hospital settings. Despite this high frequency of exposure, aspergillosis is a rare disease in humans. Many Aspergillus spp. have been defined as causing infections, including Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus flavus, among the most common [...] Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2024
Mehmet Emirhan Işık and others
Infective endocarditis is the infection of the endocardial surfaces of the heart, including native valves, mural endocardium, or septal defects. Involvement of previously implanted prosthetic valves, intracardiac devices, or pacemakers are commonly predisposing risk factors for infective endocarditis. If left untreated, it is inevitably fatal due to complications such as congestive heart failure, stroke (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2024
Abdurrahman Kaya and others
Henoch-Schönlein purpura (HSP) is a systemic small-vessel vasculitis characterized by involvement in the skin, kidney, and gastrointestinal system. It is frequently seen in children, accounting for 90% of cases. HSP is less common in adults. Cutaneous involvement is the most common presentation, and in some cohorts, adult HSP is more severe and has worse [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 6, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2024
Ali Mert and others
Pyomyositis is a primary infection of skeletal muscle that does not result from a contiguous disease, is hematogenous in origin, and often results in abscess formation. Although pyomyositis is classically an infection in tropical regions, it is an emerging infection in temperate climates. Pyomyositis is frequently caused by aerobic Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2023
Mustafa Deniz and others
Eosinophilic cellulitis (EC) is a rare inflammatory skin condition with fewer than 200 documented cases in the medical literature. There are only a limited number of case reports available from our country. The prevalence and incidence of EC are unknown. The disease is characterized by pruritic, non-purulent, erythematous plaques (...) Read More
Case Report
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2023
Amanda J. Bastien and others
Introduction Respiratory illness from an acute infection remains the most common etiology for inpatient pediatric hospitalization. Imminent respiratory arrest from prolonged hypoxemia may lead to bradycardia and subsequent cardiac collapse. As such, apnea (or respiratory distress) followed then by bradycardia is the classic modus operandi seen at the bedside, especially in neonates (...) Read More
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
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/ 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
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/ 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
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/ 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
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/ 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
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/ 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
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/ 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