Hepatitis E Virus Prevalence and Associated Risk Factors in High-Risk Groups: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background: Seroepidemiology, risk factors to hepatitis E virus exposure, and prevalence of hepatitis E virus viremia have not yet been investigated among patients under immunosuppression or with liver disease that are high risk for infection in Turkey.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 292 consecutive serum samples from renal transplant recipients, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients, patients with acute hepatitis, and patients with chronic hepatitis C were prospectively collected in a ter- tiary university hospital. Sera were tested for hepatitis E virus immunoglobulin G/immunoglobulin M and hepatitis E virus ribonucleic acid using commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and in-house nested polymerase chain reaction with Sanger sequencing, respectively.

Bedaquiline and Clofazimine Susceptibility Testing in Mycobacterium abscessus.

Bedaquiline and clofazimine are increasingly used to treat infections with Mycobacterium abscessus. We determined distributions of MICs by broth microdilution for bedaquiline and clofazimine for 61 M. abscessus clinical isolates using different media and incubation times.

Analysis of and in saliva of colorectal cancer patients.

The aim of the study was to examine the prevalence and amount of (), () and () in the saliva of colorectal cancer (CRC) patients and controls. PCR analyses performed in 71 CRC patients and 77 controls. Saliva samples of patients had higher amounts of (p = 0.

Erythromycin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae: phenotypes, genotypes, transposons and pneumococcal vaccine coverage rates.

Purpose: To assess the antibiotic resistance, transposon profiles, serotype distribution and vaccine coverage rates in 110 erythromycin-resistant S. pneumoniae clinical isolates.

Methodology: Erythromycin, clindamycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol and kanamycin susceptibilities were assessed using the E-test/disc diffusion method.