[Coexistence of Pulmonary Hydatid Cyst and Mycoplasma pneumoniae Pnömonia in a Child].

Hydatid cyst is a zoonotic disease and endemic in Turkey. The disease can involve any organ. The most common involved organ is lung in childhood.

[Three Pediatric Cases of Leishmaniasis with Different Clinical Forms and Treatment Regimens].

Several clinical syndromes caused by an obligate intracellular parasite Leishmania spp. subsumed under the term leishmaniasis. Leishmaniasis is endemic in Turkey and the neighboring countries Iran, Iraq, and Syria.

Comparison of QuantiFERON-TB gold in-tube test with tuberculin skin test in children who had no contact with active tuberculosis case.

Introduction: In this study, we aimed to compare QuantiFERON-TB gold in-tube test (QFT-GIT) and tuberculin skin test (TST) as a diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in the children with Bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine.

Materials And Methods: We evaluated 81 children in the study who have positive TST result without a known history of tuberculosis contact from 2008 to 2011 prospectively. Patients were separated into groups according to their ages, the reason of TST application, number of BCG vaccination scars and diameter of TST induration.

Coexistence of liver hydatid cyst and brucellosis in an adolescent.

A 15-year-old girl, who was evaluated for arthralgia of knees, was diagnosed as having brucellosis by serum agglutination and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay tests. Physical examination of the patient revealed massive hepatomegaly. Abdominal ultrasonography and computerised tomography showed a single large cystic lesion of the liver.

The clinical characteristics and treatment of pertussis patients in a tertiary center over a four-year period.

We performed a retrospective study of pertussis patients seen during the period July 2007-December 2011. All patients were microbiologically confirmed through polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or culture. Thirty one patients with positive Bordetella spp.

Nosocomial infections in the general pediatric wards of a hospital in Turkey.

The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence, type, and clinical features of nosocomial infections (NIs), their etiological distribution, and the antibiotic resistance patterns of causative organisms in the general pediatric wards of a hospital in Turkey over a 3-year period. The Hospital Infection Control Committee NI surveillance reports were used as a database. NIs were detected in 171 (2.