Publications by authors named "Emine Mese"
Turkey's response experience thus far with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic affords the globe and the region a unique opportunity for and distinctive insights into combating this novel virus. The country's pandemic response, having one of the lowest case fatality ratio (2.8%; 52.
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- * A study analyzed device-associated HAIs (DA-HAIs) from 2008 to 2017, revealing significant declines in rates for ventilator-associated events, urinary catheter infections, and central line infections across various hospital types and sizes.
- * The findings highlight that the national surveillance system and control program greatly improved DA-HAI rates, but ongoing efforts, including technology use and clinician engagement, are crucial for maintaining these improvements and ensuring patient safety.
Background: Individuals with diabetes can develop cognitive impairment due to dysfunction of glucose metabolism; however, it remains unclear whether cognition becomes altered in the prediabetic stage. Substantial evidence links cognitive impairment in diabetes to aberrant serum insulin-degrading enzyme (s[IDE]) levels. This relationship remains to be investigated in individuals with prediabetes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNervous system involvement is a rare manifestation of brucellosis. We describe our experience of the diagnosis, treatment and final outcome of patients with neurobrucellosis at the Erciyes University Gevher Nesibe Hospital, a tertiary referral centre in Central Anatolia, Turkey. Thirty-six adult patients were diagnosed with neurobrucellosis from January 1997 to December 2006.
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