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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2025
Elif Sargın-Altunok and others
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are common yet largely preventable through adherence to evidence-based guidelines. In 2005, Türkiye implemented a national infection control program, which led to significant reductions in HAI rates, including a 50% decrease in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) between 2008 and 2017. This result was in parallel with data from [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2025
Sana Baghban and others
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound negative impact on global human health, due to both direct harmful effects of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated superinfections. Notably, two mold infections—aspergillosis and mucormycosis—have been observed in affected patients. Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2025
Mehmet Samet Demirel and others
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a disease that causes serious morbidity and mortality and can affect multiple organ systems. The Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) belongs to the Nairoviridae family within the order Bunyavirales, which comprises enveloped, negatively [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2025
İsmail Selçuk Aygar and Mehmet Tevfik Yavuz
Human papillomavirus (HPV) is a non-enveloped, double-stranded DNA virus that infects humans exclusively. It is classified within the Papillomaviridae family and replicates in skin and mucosal epithelial cells. Human papillomavirus is regarded as one of the most prevalent sexually transmitted viral infections, having the capacity [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 3, SEPTEMBER 2025
Elif Özeller and others
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. Epidemiologically and molecularly, the human papillomavirus (HPV) is a circular, double-stranded DNA virus known to cause chronic infections and is the primary cause of cervical cancer. Other cancers associated with HPV include vulvar[...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Armina Khalilzadegan and others
In recent decades, fungal infections of the central nervous system (CNS) have increased significantly. Of more than 100,000 identified fungal species, approximately 10 to 15% are responsible for implicated fungal-related neurological diseases. A significant clinical manifestation of fungal infections of the CNS is meningitis, a serious condition marked [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Hasan Memiş and others
Antibiotic resistance has become a significant public health concern, primarily due to irrational antibiotic use. Healthcare and antimicrobial stewardship depend on using antibiotics correctly for several reasons. In the first place, adhering to the prescribed dosage ensures that the body receives the right amount of antibiotics to treat [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Elif Nur Özbay-Haliloğlu and Zeynep Tekin-Taş
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), led to significant hospitalizations and mortality globally from 2019 to 2021. According to data from the World Health Organization (WHO), over 776 million COVID-19 cases and more than 7 million COVID-19-related deaths have been reported to date. Although [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Hilal Ekici and others
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease with a wide clinical spectrum ranging from mild to moderate illness to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and death. Approximately 25% of patients with COVID-19-related ARDS required mechanical ventilation due to respiratory failure and were treated in intensive [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Aylin İrem Ocaklı and others
The straightforward way to keep the course of the pandemic under control is herd immunity, which is established with a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). There is a need to develop appropriate laboratory tools to predict the efficacy of vaccines and evaluate the post-vaccination immune response. Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Gülşah Malkoçoğlu and others
Group B Streptococcus (GBS), Streptococcus agalactiae, is generally found as a colonizer of the genital and gastrointestinal tracts, and vertical transmission from colonized mothers to newborns during childbirth can result in serious infections. This bacterium is a leading cause of sepsis and meningitis in neonates and is also associated with several invasive and non-invasive [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Hacer Ceylan Çimendağ and others
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is a DNA belonging to the family Herpesviridae and subfamily Betaherpesvirinae. CMV seropositivity rate in Turkiye varies between 85% and 100% . Following primary infection, CMV remains latent for life in myeloid cells, such as monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells. It can reactivate when [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Shirkhan Amikishiyev and others
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, typically presents with mild to moderate course in the majority of infected individuals. During the pandemic, nearly 30% of patients required hospitalization, and a subset developed a severe disease characterized by respiratory failure and needed intensive care support. Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 2, JUNE 2025
Hasan Memiş and others
Healthcare-associated infections are frequently encountered in intensive care units (ICUs), with more than 30% of all ICU admissions having an infection. For decades, antibiotics have provided an effective treatment for infectious diseases. Since most antibiotic resistance is caused by misuse or abuse of antibiotics, one of the strategies that could [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Bahar Madran and others
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are accepted as one of the most important challenges in hospital settings. They cause extended lengths of stay -at the hospital, threatening patient safety, increasing the rate of morbidity and mortality, raising the workforce of healthcare workers and accelerating antimicrobial resistance. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Fatih Mehmet Akıllı and others
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is an enveloped, single-stranded, positive polarity RNA virus from the Flaviviridae family. It is part of the Hepacivirus genus, wrapped in a lipid bilayer containing two viral glycoproteins (E1 and E2). HCV infection is a major public health problem that can lead to complications such as cirrhosis and liver cancer. Approximately 85% of people [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Barış Gülhan and others
Rapid diagnosis of pathogens grown in blood cultures reduces mortality and morbidity as appropriate treatment is started early. It notably reduces hospital costs because of less need for intensive care and earlier patient discharge. Although rapid identification and antibiogram of pathogens can be made with automated blood [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Hanife Nur Karakoç-Parlayan and others
The demographic shift with an aging population worldwide has highlighted the unique healthcare challenges the elderly face. According to the Turkish Statistical Institute data, the population aged 65 and over reached 8,722,806 in 2023, accounting for 10.2% of the total population. Population projections indicate that the proportion of the elderly population is expected to reach 12.9% in 2030 [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Pelin İrkören and others
The residency program of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology (IDCM) in Türkiye was started in 1983 by adopting the name IDCM. The IDCM program in Türkiye is a five-year program, including related clinical rotations. Presenting a thesis at the end of this program is mandatory. The first specialty thesis in the field of IDCM was [...] Read More
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/ VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1, MARCH 2025
Aybegüm Özşahin and others
With the prolongation of life expectancy and the developments in orthopedic surgery, noteworthy progress has been made in prosthetic joint surgery in recent years. Joint replacement provides pain relief, improves quality of life, and gives independence to individuals. Along with the advances in prosthetic surgery, prosthetic joint infection (PJI) is still the most feared complication of the procedure. Read More