Review Article
Review Article
/ VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4, DECEMBER 2022
Deniz Gökengin
It has been more than a decade since the first evidence of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in the “Iniciativa Profilaxis Pre-Exposición” (iPreEx) study, which reported 44% efficacy. Following these results, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved PrEP in 2012 as a method of prevention from HIV for individuals at high risk, and two years later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the PrEP guidelines. Then, many other (...) Read More
Review Article
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2, AUGUST 2020
S.P. Bouopda Tamo
Each year, fungal infections affect more than one billion people worldwide, with more than 1.6 million deaths. Candidiasis accounts for 75 to 88% of these infections, and despite therapeutic advances, their incidence continues to increase with increasing mortality. The clinical spectrum of candidiasis extends from superficial diseases such as cutaneous, nail, digestive, and genital candidiasis, to systemic diseases such as candidemia. Read More
Review Article
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2020
İlker Kayı and Sibel Sakarya
In the statement he gave to the television program Nieuwsuuer on March 16, Sunday evening, the Head of Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) Jaap van Dissel maintained that ‘an approach of total lockdown would lead the COVID-19 to bounce back’ and thereby they would employ the ‘maximum control’ strategy. Read More
Review Article
/ VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1, APRIL 2020
Gamze Özçürümez Bilgili
Disasters are large-scale events that are often unexpected and cause death, trauma, and destruction of property. Although there is no consistent definition of disasters in the literature, researchers generally agree that disasters share three key characteristics of large-scale traumatic events. First, disasters threaten to harm or death to a large group of people, Read More
Review Article
/ VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2019
Abdullah Tarık Aslan and Murat Akova
Origins, characteristics and classification of extended-spectrum beta-lactamases (ESBLs) Currently, beta-lactamase family includes more than 2800 unique proteins. Although varied types of beta-lactamases have been specified to date, they have common topographic structures consisting of alpha-helices and beta-plated sheets. They most probably originated from environmental sources and produced against naturally occurring […] Read More
Review Article
/ VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2019
Çağlayan Merve Ayaz and others
Actinomycosis, a chronic granulomatous condition, is caused by Actinomyces spp., a gram-positive anaerobic bacterium. Actinomyces spp. usually inhabit oral, gastrointestinal and female genital tract. The disease commonly manifests as slowly progressive cervicofacial (50% of cases), thoracic and pulmonary (15-20% ) or abdominopelvic (about 20% ) infection. Immunosuppression […] Read More
Review Article
/ VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3, DECEMBER 2019
Mahir Kapmaz and others
Infections of the yeasts other than Candida spp. are rare, but an emerging clinical entity. Clinicians should be alert for early diagnosis. Early distinction of non-Candida yeasts is important because of varying antifungal susceptibilities, higher mortality of 50-80% particularly among immunocompromised patients. These yeasts include Basidiomycetes […] Read More