The Official Journal of the Turkish Society Of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (KLİMİK)
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s 2024 report, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) occur in 1 in 31 hospitalized patients and in 1 in 43 residents in long-term care facilities. HAIs represent [...] Read More
Mucormycosis is a fungal infection caused by members of the order Mucorales, including Rhizopus, Mucor, Rhizomucor, Actinomucor, Apophysomyces, Cunninghamella, Lichtheimia, Saksenaea, and Syncephalastrum (...) Read More
Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is an enveloped, single-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) virus in the genus Metapneumovirus. In 2016, the Pneumoviridae family replaced Paramyxoviridae as a new classification for this virus. Read More
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is a viral respiratory infection caused by the MERS coronavirus (MERS-CoV) from the Coronaviridae family. MERS coronavirus was first identified as the etiologic agent from a patient living in Saudi Arabia in 2012, and it is the sixth human coronavirus . After the first case, the infection was detected in Bahrain, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. So far, all MERS-CoV cases worldwide have been associated with a travel history (...) Read More