Seroprevalence and risk factors of syphilis among HIV/AIDS patients in Istanbul, Turkey.

Objective: Data on syphilis seroprevalence among human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients are unavailable in Turkey although they have common transmission routes. Our study is oriented towards the assessment of the seroprevalence of syphilis and the related risk factors in the HIV/AIDS patients followed in our outpatient clinic.

Materials: Newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases (n = 308) who attended our outpatient clinic between January 2006 and April 2013 were included in the study.

Mucocutaneous manifestations and the relationship to CD4 lymphocyte counts among Turkish HIV/AIDS patients in Istanbul, Turkey.

Background/aim: Dermatologic findings differ among countries but no sufficient data about Turkish HIV-infected patients exist in the literature. Therefore, our aim in this study was to document the dermatologic manifestations and their relationships with CD4 cell counts among HIV/AIDS patients visiting our clinic for the first time in Istanbul, Turkey.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis of 306 HIV/AIDS patients (260 men, mean age: 38.

Predictors of fatality in pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus infection among adults.

Background: The fatality attributed to pandemic influenza A H1N1 was not clear in the literature. We described the predictors for fatality related to pandemic influenza A H1N1 infection among hospitalized adult patients.

Methods: This is a multicenter study performed during the pandemic influenza A H1N1 [A(H1N1)pdm09] outbreak which occurred in 2009 and 2010.

Prevalence and risk factors of osteopenia/osteoporosis in Turkish HIV/AIDS patients.

Background: Recent studies showed a high frequency of low bone mineral density (BMD) in HIV-infected patients and no reports have been issued in Turkey. Our aim was to evaluate BMD and risk factors for osteopenia/osteoporosis in HIV-infected patients that attended an outpatient clinic in Istanbul, Turkey.

Method: In order to determine the prevalence of BMD, 126 HIV-infected patients had been studied with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA).

Imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria in Istanbul, Turkey: risk factors for severe course and mortality.

We describe the epidemiological, clinical features and risk factors for the morbidity and mortality of imported Plasmodium falciparum malaria cases during the last 10 years in Istanbul, Turkey. The epidemiological, clinical and laboratory data of cases in six tertiary care hospitals in Istanbul between 2002 and 2012 were analysed. Seventy patients (65 males, five females; median age 37; range: 14-84) were included.

Isolated anti-HBc among HIV-infected patients in Istanbul, Turkey.

Background: Isolated antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc) is frequent in HIV-infected patients, and it may be a marker of occult hepatitis B. We aimed to determine the prevalence and associated risk factors of isolated anti-HBc among HIV-infected patients in Turkey, which is classified as an intermediate HBV, low HIV endemic region.

Method: HIV/AIDS patients followed by the Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology Outpatient Clinic of Haseki Training and Research Hospital between January 2006 and March 2011 were included in this study.

The importance of transmission time in HIV infections and an epidemiological prospective follow-up study for 1 year in the Marmara Region of Turkey.

It is important to detect recent and new HIV/1 infections and to take preventative measures in order to prevent rapid disease progression in AIDS and to decrease the incidence of infection. We aimed to detect long standing or recent HIV infections by determining transmission times for the cases in which first-time HIV/1 seropositivity were detected. The serum samples of 323 cases which were found to be seropositive by ELISA and Western-blotting were included in this study.

Seroprevalence of hepatitis B: do blood donors represent the general population?

Introduction: In this study, we aimed to compare the HBV seroprevalances of voluntary blood donors and the healthy persons who required premarital screening.

Methodology: HBsAg ELISA results were collected retrospectively from the records of 9,949 blood donors and 954 healthy persons who required premarital screening.

Results: HBsAg was detected in 182 of 9,949 (%1.

[Toxoplasma gondii IgG seroprevalence in HIV/AIDS patients].

Objective: Our aim was to determine the Toxoplasma gondii IgG seroprevalence in HIV/AIDS patients who applied to our outpatient clinic.

Methods: Between January 2006 and June 2010, 164 HIV/AIDS patients were tested for Toxoplasma gondii IgG antibodies by using the ELISA method.

Results: Of the total of 164 HIV/AIDS patients, 135 were male, 29 were female with a mean age of 36 years (range: 20-72 years).

Profile of HIV/AIDS patients in a tertiary hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.

Background: In Turkey, the first HIV/AIDS case was reported in 1985. Although HIV/AIDS incidence has been increasing, only 3,671 cases have been documented to date in this country, with a population of 71,517,100. The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiologic and clinical features of patients with HIV infection and AIDS followed during a 3.

Sensorineural hearing loss in neurobrucellosis.

Neurobrucellosis (NB) is a rare clinical presentation of brucellosis. This form is hard to diagnose because of a lack of definite diagnostic criteria, and its treatment is also hard. The clinical spectrum may cover a span between non-specific neurological symptoms to a severe meningoencephalitis.

Evaluation of cases admitted to a center in Istanbul, Turkey in 2003 for rabies vaccination and three rabies cases followed up in the last 15 years.

We evaluated the cases of 7,266 individuals who applied to our hospital's Center for Rabies Vaccination between January and December 2003. Among 1,831 female and 5,435 male cases, 37% were given 3 doses of vaccination, 14% were given 5 doses, and in 24% of cases a 2-1-1 vaccination schedule was applied. Antirabies serum of horse origin was given in 179 cases.

[Investigation of intestinal parasites in AIDS patients].

In this study, enteric parasites were investigated in the stool samples of 38 AIDS patients (23 with chronic diarrhea and 15 without diarrhea) prospectively. At least three stool samples from each patient were investigated microscopically for ova or trophozoites. The samples were concentrated with formol-ether method and wet preparations stained with lugol were examined.