Publications by authors named "M Ali Saracli"
Cryptococcal meningitis is considered rare in immunocompetent patients and is mainly a disease of immunocompromised patients. We report a case of cryptococcal meningitis, due to Cryptococcus neoformans, in an apparently healthy individual with abnormal levels of isolated immunological markers. Regardless of the patient's immune status, the result of the disease can be serious unless the disease is diagnosed early.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmericella nidulans is a species that has only rarely been implicated in human disease after cataract surgery. Here, we report the first postoperative case in the literature, as far as we know. The patient was a 50-year-old patient presented with mild anterior uveitis one week after cataract surgery, and hypopion developed over the next two days.
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- - MALDI-TOF MS is a rapid technology for identifying microorganisms and detecting antimicrobial resistance, specifically targeting triazole resistance in Candida species such as C. albicans, C. glabrata, and C. tropicalis.
- - The study involved exposing various Candida strains to triazole antifungals at different concentrations and using composite correlation index (CCI) matrices to classify strains as resistant or susceptible, comparing results with standard antifungal susceptibility testing (AFST).
- - The method showed an essential agreement between 54% and 97% with AFST results, demonstrating varying reproducibility, particularly high for fluconazole against C. albicans and posaconazole against C. glabrata; further research is
The environmental isolation of opportunistic pathogenic black yeasts, which are responsible for a wide spectrum of human infections, is essential to understanding the ecology of clinical fungi. Extreme outdoor environments polluted with aromatic hydrocarbons support the growth of black yeasts in unlikely places, such as railway sleepers. However, there are limited data concerning the diversity of these fungi growing on polluted railway sleepers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: In this study, we aimed to investigate the presence and copy number of six different viruses in tonsillar tissue samples removed surgically because of chronic recurrent tonsillitis or chronic obstructive tonsillar hypertrophy.
Methods: In total, 56 tissue samples (tonsillar core) collected from 44 children and 12 adults were included in this study. The presence of viruses was investigated using a new TaqMan-based quantitative real-time PCR assay.