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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Alara Altıntaş and others
COVID-19 has been the main focus of the world since the beginning of 2020. The virus has infected over 180 million people and caused about 6 million deaths worldwide up to February of 2022. With its rapid spread, the new coronavirus posed enormous economic, environmental, and social challenges together with health threats to the entire (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Vildan Avkan-Oğuz and others
Before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) programs were essential for managing multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. In contrast, antifungal stewardship (AFS) programs were uncommon as a component of AMS. During the COVID-19 pandemic, both AMS and AFS programs have lost (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Özlem Gül and others
The presence of cognitive disorders in the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals has been known for a long time. A complete neuropsychological evaluation method is a gold standard for diagnosing HIV-related cognitive impairment (HAND). However, such tests require specially trained personnel and specialized centers, and testing takes a long time. Montreal Cognitive (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Mert Kılıç and others
Gardnerella vaginalis is an anaerobic, gram-negative/variable, small, pleomorphic microorganism. The jury is still out about the clinical significance of G. vaginalis. It is the predominant microorganism in women with vaginosis and also can be isolated from a vaginal secretion of 40-50% of asymptomatic women . On the other hand, male genitourinary tract infections (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Şirin Menekşe and others
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a Gram-negative, non-fermentative aerobic bacterium that infects patients, especially with severe comorbidities such as hematological malignancies. It is commonly found in the environment and hospital settings. The most common clinical presentations are pneumonia and bloodstream infections (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
İsmail Çelik and others
Since its emergence in December 2019, 530,266,292 confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases, including 6,299,364 deaths were reported as of June 7, 2022. It’s widely accepted that in older age, comorbidities (hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, chronic respiratory disease, (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Yeşim Tuyji-Tok and others
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants have been detected since the summer of 2020, and their critical association with viral load, transmissibility, and escape from the innate-vaccine immune response were demonstrated. Another new variant was identified (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2022
Oğuz Evlice and others
The clinical spectrum of COVID-19 varies, ranging from asymptomatic infection to critical illness. The most commonly used tool for the classification of disease severity is the National Institute of Health (NIH) severity scale, which has four categories: mild, moderate, severe, and critical. Patients with moderate and severe clinical courses are followed up in wards, while those with (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Caglayan Merve Ayaz and others
The number of patients with hematological malignancies (HMs) and those undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) has been on rise during the last three decades. Febrile neutropenia (FN) is the most common complication in this specific patient group and requires urgent intervention. Bacteremia […] Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Ebru Oruç and others
Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), one of the necrotizing soft tissue infections, is an infection that primarily involves subcutaneous adipose tissue, which consists of superficial fascia, vascular and neural structures, and involves in deep fascia and progresses with mortality. It may be difficult to differentiate (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Heval Can Bilek and Aydın Deveci
In early December 2019, interstitial pneumonia of unknown origin emerged in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province. The pathogen was identified as a novel beta coronavirus called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 was later named (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Lütfiye Nilsun Altunal and others
Clinically COVID-19 can be observed with mild symptoms such as fever, malaise, cough, and also severe symptoms such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) that may require respiratory support in up to 25% of the patients . COVID-19 has a high mortality rate, in hospitalized (...)
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Muammer Çelik and others
Invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important cause of morbidity and mortality among young children and adults 65 years and older. S. pneumoniae is one of the most important causes of serious diseases, such as pneumonia, meningitis, and bacteremia. According to 2018 surveillance data from US Centers for Disease (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2022
Abdurrahman Gülmez and others
West Nile Virus (WNV) is an enveloped RNA virus with icosahedral symmetry and with a size of 45-50 nm belonging to the family Flaviviridae, genus Flavivirus (1). The virus, which was first isolated from a woman living in the West Nile region of Uganda in 1937, was noted with consecutive outbreaks in North Africa (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
Ege Anıl Uçar and others
Rational use of medicines (RUM) has been a concern worldwide for half a century, and is of great importance, given that almost half of all prescribed drugs are irrational. The irrational use of drugs can be disastrous and may cause adverse events, creating a (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
RSC Vanlalruati and others
Scrub typhus is an emerging infectious disease in India and is being reported from almost every state. It is caused by Orientia tsutsugamushi and is transmitted by the bite of infected larvae of the mite Leptotrombidium deliense. It is a (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
Petek Konya and Neşe Demirtürk
Chronic hepatitis B (CHB) is one of the major causes of chronic liver diseases worldwide. Around 296 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection in 2019, with 1.5 million new infections each year and more than 820 thousand people losing their life because of hepatitis B virus (HBV) related complications. Chronic HBV (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
Bahar Madran and others
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most common cause of mortality among healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). In the United States of America (USA), one-third of the fatalities among HAIs are caused (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
Fethiye Akgül and others
At the beginning of the 21st century, three deadly epidemics related to coronaviruses have struck the world. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) originated in 2002, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2012, and finally COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in December 2019. COVID-19 (...) Read More
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/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2022
Pınar Korkmaz and others
At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It spread rapidly, resulting in a pandemic throughout the world. In February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) named the disease COVID-19. Studies reported that COVID-19 mostly progressed with asymptomatic (...) Read More