Commentary
Commentary
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2023
Önder Ergönül
The Oppenheimer film reminded us once again of the situations in which scientists were forced to immigrate unwillingly from their own countries. No doubt, the most striking tragedies happened during the Nazi period in Germany. The film reflected many physicists, including Einstein, who emigrated from Europe to the USA during this period and aroused curiosity […] Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2023
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
Commentary
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2023
Özlem Kurt-Azap
Streptococcus pyogenes, Group A beta-hemolytic streptococcus (GAS), is a Gram-positive coccus easily diagnosed in microbiology laboratories and generally causes mild diseases such as tonsillopharyngitis and pyodermas. However, severe, life-threatening illnesses called invasive GAS (iGAS) diseases may also, uncommonly (...) Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 5, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2023
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
Commentary
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Salih Ahmeti and others
International collaborative consultations are significantly beneficial in combatting pandemics, although such opportunities were quite limited during the COVID-19 pandemic. We had the chance to convene with the experts to share experiences and review the practices in Kosova. Two days of expert consultation hybrid meeting […] Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Ermira Tartari and others
Hand hygiene improvement is a critical part of effective infection prevention and control (IPC) and therefore constitutes a priority for patient and health worker’s safety. However, hand hygiene compliance in healthcare settings remains sub-optimal globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends (...) Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Gülşen Özkaya Şahin and others
Following the increase in number of pediatric cases with acute severe hepatitis of unknown etiology (ASHep-UE), in collaboration with European Center for Disease Control (ECDC) and the United Kingdom Health Security Agency (UKHSA), a special late breaking session “Hepatitis of unknown origin” was (...) Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2021
Cem Hakan Başaran
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 (...) Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2021
Önder Ergönül and others
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
Commentary
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2021
Özlem Kurt Azap
World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that 2021 has been designated as the International Year of Health and Care Workers (HCW) in “appreciation and gratitude for their unwavering dedication in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic”. The theme of this one-year-long campaign is “Protect. Invest. Together.” which highlights the urgent needs such as equity and economic opportunity Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 3, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2021
Kenan Midilli
Coronaviruses are known to evolve slower than the other RNA viruses; however, SARS-CoV-2 underwent a major shift through D614G change in February 2020, even before the declaration of a pandemic by WHO and D614G variant became rapidly dominant throughout the world. The spike protein of this variant with D614G change have a higher affinity to […] Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2020
Jordi Rello and Ricardo Serrano
In the treatment of COVID-19, attention is focused on expensive, high technology equipment such as sophisticated ventilators or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which requires highly trained health care workers and aggressive pharmacological measures with weak evidence of efficacy. Read More
Commentary
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2020
Mahir Kapmaz
This paper is dedicated to the memory of legendary clinician, Professor Cemil Taşçıoğlu who succumbed to COVID-19. I am an Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology physician. We were at the frontline of the battle of COVID-19 soon after the first case in Turkey, that was officially declared on 11 March 2020. Rick Penciner was a […] Read More