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1. Efficacy and safety of co-formulated elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide in HIV-positive patients: real-world data

Author: Fehmi Tabak, Esra Zerdali, Dilek Yildiz, Hayat Kumbasar Karaosmanoglu, Alper Gunduz, Ilyas Dokmetas, Meliha Meriç Koç, Sibel Bolukcu, Inci Yilmaz Nakir, Bilgul Mete, Ozlem Altuntaş, BOLUKÇU, SİBEL, and MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA
Subjects: Adult, Male, Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), HIV Infections, Dermatology, Quinolones, medicine.disease_cause, Emtricitabine, Tenofovir alafenamide, Sexual and Gender Minorities, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Humans, Medicine, Pharmacology (medical), 030212 general & internal medicine, Homosexuality, Male, Tenofovir, 0303 health sciences, Alanine, Elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir, 030306 microbiology, business.industry, Elvitegravir, Cobicistat, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Virology, Regimen, Infectious Diseases, business, Real world data, medicine.drug
Abstract: Objectives: Elvitegravir/cobicistat/emtricitabine/tenofovir alafenamide (E/C/F/TAF) is a recommended and widely used regimen for HIV infection. In this study, we aimed to determine the efficacy and safety of E/C/F/TAF in people living with HIV (PLWH), who are either treatment-naïve or switched from any tenofovir disoproxil fumarate-containing regimen. For switched patients, we aimed to determine the impact of switching from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) to TAF on lipid profile and kidney functions. Methods: ACTHIV-IST Study Group produced a database, and five dedicated HIV centres in Istanbul entered data of PLWH who switched from any TDF-containing regimen to E/C/F/TAF and treatment-naïve patients who were initiated with the E/C/F/TAF regimen between January 2017 and December 2019. Clinical findings, viral parameters, lipid studies, renal function tests, adverse events and adherence to the treatment were recorded in this prospective observational study. Results: The study included a total of 614 switched and treatment-naïve patients. Of 430 treatment-experienced patients, 89% (382) were men, and the mean age was 42 ± 12 years. Among them, 47% (181/382) self-identified as men who have sex with men (MSM). The median duration of HIV diagnosis was 54 ± 29 months. The median duration of E/C/F/TAF use was 20 ± 36 months and that of previous treatment was 23 ± 18 months. HIV-RNA was undetectable at baseline and month 12 in 84.1% (360/428) and 86.1% (328/381) of patients, respectively ( p > 0.05). Mean CD4 counts were 708 ± 287 cells/µL and 802 ± 305 cells/µL at baseline and month 12, respectively ( p < 0.001). Serum creatinine levels remained stable during the treatment period. Mean total cholesterol levels at baseline and month 12 were 172 and 211 mg/dL ( p < 0.01), LDL-cholesterol 104 and 138 mg/dL ( p < 0.01), HDL-cholesterol 39 and 49 mg/dL ( p < 0.01) and triglycerides 134 and 174 mg/dL ( p < 0.01), respectively. The treatment was generally well tolerated. Eight patients discontinued the therapy (drug interaction: 3; lost to follow-up: 1; pregnancy: 1; pulmonary tuberculosis: 1; side effect: 1; patient’s decision: 1). Of 184 treatment-naïve patients, 88% (162) were men, and the mean age was 36.5± 12 years. Among them, 50% (81/162) self-identified as MSM. The mean duration of HIV infection was 21.6 ± 17.1 months. The mean duration of E/C/F/TAF use was 16 ± 4 months. HIV-RNA was undetectable at baseline and month 12 in 1% and 89.1% of patients, respectively. Mean CD4 counts at baseline and month 12 were 469 ± 223 cells/µL and 740 ± 298 cells/µL, respectively. During the treatment period, creatinine levels remained stable. Total cholesterol, LDL-cholesterol, triglyceride and also HDL-cholesterol levels increased. Mean total cholesterol levels at baseline and month 12 were 167 and 211 mg/dL ( p < 0.01), LDL-cholesterol 108 and 143 mg/dL ( p < 0.01), HDL-cholesterol 41 and 47 mg/dL ( p < 0.01) and triglycerides 136 and 172 mg/dL, respectively ( p < 0.01). The treatment was generally well tolerated. Three patients discontinued the therapy (drug interaction: 1; non-responder: 1; patient’s decision: 1). Conclusion: Starting with or switching to E/C/F/TAF in PLWH effectively suppresses HIV infection, is associated with an increase in CD4 cell count and is well tolerated in a real-life setting. Renal functions remained stable during the treatment. E/C/F/TAF use was associated with an increase in LDL-cholesterol and triglyceride levels along with an increase in HDL-cholesterol levels.
Published: 2021

2. Vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents: An international ID-IRI survey

Author: Yakup Cag, Mohammad Emad Al Madadha, Handan Ankarali, Yasemin Cag, Kubra Demir Onder, Aysegul Seremet-Keskin, Filiz Kizilates, Rok Čivljak, Ghaydaa Shehata, Handan Alay, Sevil Alkan-Ceviker, Fatma Yilmaz-Karadag, Meliha Cagla-Sonmezer, Manar Ezzelarab Ramadan, Dumitru Irina Magdelena, Ljiljana Betica Radic, Jurica Arapovic, Fatma Kesmez-Can, Nagwa Mostafa El-Sayed, Oladapo Babatunde Campbell, Gulden Eser-Karlidag, Reham Khedr, Mehmet Emirhan Isik, Michael Mihailov Petrov, Roxana Cernat, Umran Erturk, Yesim Uygun-Kizmaz, Eva Huljev, Fatma Amer, Mehmet Resat Ceylan, Andrea Marino, Gulnur Kul, Tuba Damar-Cakirca, Yara Mohsen Khalaf, Arzu Cennet Isik, Olumuyiwa Elijah Ariyo, Ismail Necati Hakyemez, Rezaul Karim Ripon, Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh, Emine Kubra Dindar-Demiray, Osasona Oluwadamilola Gideon, Maya Belitova, Mustafa Altindis, Rehab El-Sokkary, Recep Tekin, Mohammed Ahmed Garout, Joanna Zajkowska, Farhan Fazal, Muhammed Bekcibasi, Mirsada Hukic, Summiya Nizamuddin, Serkan Surme, Ricardo Fernandez, Amani El-Kholy, Nasim Akhtar, Saadia Ijaz, Andrea Cortegiani, Meliha Meric-Koc, Hakan Hasman, Agah Victor Maduka, Jehan Ali ElKholy, Sema Sari, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Yasemin Akin, Sukran Kose, Hakan Erdem, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, Cag, Yakup, Al Madadha, Mohammad Emad, Ankarali, Handan, Cag, Yasemin, Demir Onder, Kubra, Seremet-Keskin, Aysegul, Kizilates, Filiz, Čivljak, Rok, Shehata, Ghaydaa, Alay, Handan, Alkan-Ceviker, Sevil, Yilmaz-Karadag, Fatma, Cagla-Sonmezer, Meliha, Ezzelarab Ramadan, Manar, Magdelena, Dumitru Irina, Radic, Ljiljana Betica, Arapovic, Jurica, Kesmez-Can, Fatma, El-Sayed, Nagwa Mostafa, Campbell, Oladapo Babatunde, Eser-Karlidag, Gulden, Khedr, Reham, Isik, Mehmet Emirhan, Petrov, Michael Mihailov, Cernat, Roxana, Erturk, Umran, Uygun-Kizmaz, Yesim, Huljev, Eva, Amer, Fatma, Ceylan, Mehmet Resat, Marino, Andrea, Kul, Gulnur, Damar-Cakirca, Tuba, Khalaf, Yara Mohsen, Isik, Arzu Cennet, Ariyo, Olumuyiwa Elijah, Hakyemez, Ismail Necati, Ripon, Rezaul Karim, Afkhamzadeh, Abdorrahim, Dindar-Demiray, Emine Kubra, Gideon, Osasona Oluwadamilola, Belitova, Maya, Altindis, Mustafa, El-Sokkary, Rehab, Tekin, Recep, Garout, Mohammed Ahmed, Zajkowska, Joanna, Fazal, Farhan, Bekcibasi, Muhammed, Hukic, Mirsada, Nizamuddin, Summiya, Surme, Serkan, Fernandez, Ricardo, El-Kholy, Amani, Akhtar, Nasim, Ijaz, Saadia, Cortegiani, Andrea, Meric-Koc, Meliha, Hasman, Hakan, Maduka, Agah Victor, ElKholy, Jehan Ali, Sari, Sema, Khan, Mumtaz Ali, Akin, Yasemin, Kose, Sukran, and Erdem, Hakan
Subjects: Male, Parents, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, An international ID-IRI survey-, JOURNAL OF INFECTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, cilt.16, sa.6, ss.1081-1088, 2022 [Cag Y., Al Madadha M. E. , ANKARALI H., ÇAĞ Y., Onder K. D. , Seremet-Keskin A., Kizilates F., Civljak R., Shehata G., ALAY H., et al., -Vaccine hesitancy and refusal among parents], Vaccination, General Medicine, Patient Acceptance of Health Care, Microbiology, Communicable Diseases, parent, Infectious Diseases, Cross-Sectional Studies, Virology, Surveys and Questionnaires, vaccine refusal, Humans, Parasitology, Female, Vaccination Hesitancy, Child, Vaccine hesitancy
Abstract: Introduction:Although vaccines are the safest and most effective means to prevent and control infectious diseases, the increasing rate of vaccine hesitancy and refusal (VHR) has become a worldwide concern. We aimed to find opinions of parents on vaccinating their children and contribute to available literature in order to support the fight against vaccine refusal by investigating the reasons for VHR on a global scale.Methodology:In this international cross-sectional multicenter study conducted by the Infectious Diseases International Research Initiative (ID-IRI), a questionnaire consisting of 20 questions was used to determine parents' attitudes towards vaccination of their children.Results:Four thousand and twenty-nine (4,029) parents were included in the study and 2,863 (78.1%) were females. The overall VHR rate of the parents was found to be 13.7%. Nineteen-point three percent (19.3%) of the parents did not fully comply with the vaccination programs. The VHR rate was higher in high-income (HI) countries. Our study has shown that parents with disabled children and immunocompromised children, with low education levels, and those who use social media networks as sources of information for childhood immunizations had higher VHR rates (p < 0.05 for all).Conclusions:Seemingly all factors leading to VHR are related to training of the community and the sources of training. Thus, it is necessary to develop strategies at a global level and provide reliable knowledge to combat VHR.Keywords:Vaccine hesitancy; parents; vaccine refusal.Copyright (c) 2022 Yakup Cag, Mohammad Emad al Madadha, Handan Ankarali, Yasemin Cag, Kubra Demir Onder, Aysegul Seremet-Keskin, Filiz Kizilates, Rok Civljak, Ghaydaa Shehata, Handan Alay, Sevil Alkan-Ceviker, Fatma Yilmaz-Karadag, Meliha Cagla-Sonmezer, Manar Ezzelarab Ramadan, Dumitru Irina Magdelena, Ljiljana Betica Radic, Jurica Arapovic, Fatma Kesmez-Can, Nagwa Mostafa El-Sayed, Oladapo Babatunde Campbell, Gulden Eser-Karlidag, Reham Khedr, Mehmet Emirhan Isik, Michael Mihailov Petrov, Roxana Cernat, Umran Erturk, Yesim Uygun-Kizmaz, Eva Huljev, Fatma Amer, Mehmet Resat Ceylan, Andrea Marino, Gulnur Kul, Tuba Damar-Cakirca, Yara Mohsen Khalaf, Arzu Cennet Isik, Olumuyiwa Elijah Ariyo, Ismail Necati Hakyemez, Rezaul Karim Ripon, Abdorrahim Afkhamzadeh, Emine Kubra Dindar-Demiray, Osasona Oluwadamilola Gideon, Maya Belitova, Mustafa Altindis, Rehab El-Sokkary, Recep Tekin, Mohammed Ahmed Garout, Joanna Zajkowska, Farhan Fazal, Muhammed Bekcibasi, Mirsada Hukic, Summiya Nizamuddin, Serkan Surme, Ricardo Fernandez, Amani El-Kholy, Nasim Akhtar, Saadia Ijaz, Andrea Cortegiani, Meliha Meric-Koc, Hakan Hasman, Agah Victor Maduka, Jehan Ali ElKholy, Sema Sari, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Yasemin Akin, Sukran Kose, Hakan Erdem.
Published: 2022

3. Vector-borne and zoonotic infections and their relationships with regional and socioeconomic statuses: An ID-IRI survey in 24 countries of Europe, Africa and Asia

Author: Nesrin Ghanem-Zoubi, Meltem Taşbakan, Handan Ankarali, Md. Tanvir Rahman, Natalia Pshenichnaya, Taufiquer Rahman, Marta Vecchi, Alma Tokayeva, Maria Pishmisheva-Peleva, Pilli Hema Prakash Kumari, Roxana Carmen Cernat, Mumtaz Ali Khan, Fatma Nurhayat Saydam, Meliha Meric-Koc, Sholpan Kulzhanova, Edmond Puca, Roman Stebel, Kumar Angamuthu, Yasemin Cag, Fahad Almajid, Hakan Erdem, Aleksandra Barac, Nagwa Mostafa El-Sayed, Ravilya Yegemberdiyeva, Zarema Obradović, Gorana Dragovac, Nasim Akhtar, Manar Ezz El-Arab Ramadan, Fatemeh Moradi Mahmuodabad, Ayse Batirel, Antonio Cascio, Dumitru Irina Magdalena, Hakan Evren, Emanuele Nicastri, Marion Le Maréchal, Lenka Fasanekova, Mustafa Dogan, Serhat Uysal, Andrea Marino, Natalia Dirani, Nenad Pandak, Marija Dimzova, Alfonso J. Rodriguez-Morales, Jurica Arapović, Amangul Duisenova, Ilkay Bozkurt, Aamer Ikram, Stanislav Kotsev, Ejaz Ahmed Khan, Rosa Fontana Del Vecchio, Agah Victor Maduka, Ainur Sadykova, Safak Ozer-Balin, Ruxandra Moroti, Rok Čivljak, Amjad Mahboob, Samir Al-Moghazi, Yvon Ruch, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, Saydam F.N., Erdem H., Ankarali H., El-Arab Ramadan M.E., El-Sayed N.M., Civljak R., Pshenichnaya N., Moroti R.V., Mahmuodabad F.M., Maduka A.V., Mahboob A., Prakash Kumari P.H., Stebel R., Cernat R., Fasanekova L., Uysal S., Tasbakan M., Arapovic J., Magdalena D.I., Angamuthu K., Ghanem-Zoubi N., Meric-Koc M., Ruch Y., Marino A., Sadykova A., Batirel A., Khan E.A., Kulzhanova S., Al-Moghazi S., Yegemberdiyeva R., Nicastri E., Pandak N., Akhtar N., Ozer-Balin S., Cascio A., Dimzova M., Evren H., Puca E., Tokayeva A., Vecchi M., Bozkurt I., Dogan M., Dirani N., Duisenova A., Khan M.A., Kotsev S., Obradovic Z., Del Vecchio R.F., Almajid F., Barac A., Dragovac G., Pishmisheva-Peleva M., Rahman M.T., Rahman T., Le Marechal M., Cag Y., Ikram A., and Rodriguez-Morales A.J.
Subjects: Asia, Surveillance data, 030231 tropical medicine, education, Economic statu, Tick, Socioeconomic Factor, Zoonosis, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Economic status, Zoonosi, Multidisciplinary approach, Zoonoses, Environmental health, medicine, Animals, Humans, Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean, economic status, infection, tick, vector, zoonosis, Socioeconomic status, health care economics and organizations, Cross-Sectional Studie, 0303 health sciences, Zoonotic Infection, biology, Animal, 030306 microbiology, Significant difference, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, An ID-IRI survey in 24 countries of Europe, Africa and Asia-, TRAVEL MEDICINE AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE, cilt.44, 2021 [Saydam F. N. , Erdem H., ANKARALI H., Ramadan M. E. E. , El-Sayed N. M. , Civljak R., Pshenichnaya N., Moroti R. V. , Mahmuodabad F. M. , Maduka A. V. , et al., -Vector-borne and zoonotic infections and their relationships with regional and socioeconomic statuses], medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, 3. Good health, Europe, Cross-Sectional Studies, Infectious Diseases, Geography, Socioeconomic Factors, Vector (epidemiology), Africa, Hemorrhagic Fever Virus, Crimean-Congo, Vector, Infection
Abstract: Background: In this cross-sectional, international study, we aimed to analyze vector-borne and zoonotic infections (VBZI), which are significant global threats. Method: VBZIs’ data between May 20–28, 2018 was collected. The 24 Participatingcountries were classified as lower-middle, upper-middle, and high-income. Results: 382 patients were included. 175(45.8%) were hospitalized, most commonly in Croatia, Egypt, and Romania(P = 0.001). There was a significant difference between distributions of VBZIs according to geographical regions(P < 0.001). Amebiasis, Ancylostomiasis, Blastocystosis, Cryptosporidiosis, Giardiasis, Toxoplasmosis were significantly more common in the Middle-East while Bartonellosis, Borreliosis, Cat Scratch Disease, Hantavirus syndrome, Rickettsiosis, Campylobacteriosis, Salmonellosis in Central/East/South-East Europe; Brucellosis and Echinococcosis in Central/West Asia; Campylobacteriosis, Chikungunya, Tick-borne encephalitis, Visceral Leishmaniasis, Salmonellosis, Toxoplasmosis in the North-Mediterranean; CCHF, Cutaneous Leishmaniasis, Dengue, Malaria, Taeniasis, Salmonellosis in Indian Subcontinent; Lassa Fever in West Africa. There were significant regional differences for viral hemorrhagic fevers(P < 0.001) and tick-borne infections(P < 0.001), and according to economic status for VBZIs(P < 0.001). The prevalences of VBZIs were significantly higher in lower-middle income countries(P = 0.001). The most similar regions were the Indian Subcontinent and the Middle-East, the Indian Subcontinent and the North-Mediterranean, and the Middle-East and North-Mediterranean regions. Conclusions: Regional and socioeconomic heterogeneity still exists for VBZIs. Control and eradication of VBZIs require evidence-based surveillance data, and multidisciplinary efforts.
Published: 2021

4. Surgical Precautions and Algorithmic Decision-Making for Surgical Procedures During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Author: Alper Yenigun, Nurtac Dagistanli, Arif Koytak, Orhan Ozturan, Meliha Meric Koc, YENİGÜN, ALPER, ÖZTURAN, ORHAN, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, and KOYTAK, İBRAHİM ARİF
Subjects: Operating Rooms, medicine.medical_specialty, 2019-20 coronavirus outbreak, Letter, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), SARS-CoV-2, business.industry, Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), MEDLINE, COVID-19, Surgical precautions, Surgical procedures, Pandemic, medicine, Humans, Surgery, Intensive care medicine, business, Pandemics
Published: 2020

5. Managing adult patients with infectious diseases in emergency departments: international ID-IRI study

Author: Cernat Roxana Carmen, Sholpan Kulzhanova, Yasemin Cag, Mohamed Elhassan Abbas Dafalla, Ozay Akyildiz, Amani El-Kholy, Ainur Sadykova, Ahmed Ashraf Wegdan, Anna Liskova, Jordi Rello, Fatma A. Amer, Ilyas Dokmetas, Behrouz Naghili, Natalia Dirani, Svjetlana Grgić, Michael M. Petrov, Sevil Alkan Ceviker, Jameela Alsalman, Jehan El-Kholy, Hakan Hasman, Serkan Oncu, Abu Hena Mostafa Kamal, Kalyan Koganti, Yasemin Yildiz-Kirazaldi, Mateja Jankovic Makek, Hulya Caskurlu, Rusmir Baljic, Selda Aslan, Razi Even Dar, Sergio Ramirez-Estrada, Mateja Logar, Cansu Bulut-Avsar, Joanna Zajkowska, Rosa Fontana Del Vecchio, Handan Alay, Aidos K Konkayev, Marzena Wojewodzka-Zelezniakowicz, Sally Hargreaves, Hakan Erdem, Amjad Mahboob, Ferran Llopis, Dumitru Irina Mgdalena, Ergys Ramosaco, Dilek Bulut, Ameen S. S. Alwashmi, Nikolay Mladenov, Esam Abdalla, Nirav Pandya, Lorenza Lambertenghi, Mustafa Altindiş, Hema Prakash Kumari, Andrea Marino, Yvon Ruch, Filiz Kizilates, Dirar Abdallah, Emine Kubra Dindar-Demiray, Antonio Cascio, Meliha Meric-Koc, Asiye Bahar-Kacmaz, Rehab H. El-Sokkary, Meltem Taşbakan, Ridvan Karaali, Handan Ankarali, Helena Monzón-Camps, Ilad Alavi-Darazam, Ghaydaa A. Shehata, Merve Sefa-Sayar, Fatma Kesmez-Can, Ege Üniversitesi, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, Erdem H., Hargreaves S., Ankarali H., Caskurlu H., Ceviker S.A., Bahar-Kacmaz A., Meric-Koc M., Altindis M., Yildiz-Kirazaldi Y., Kizilates F., Alsalman J., Cag Y., Kamal A.H.M., Dokmetas I., Dindar-Demiray E.K., Shehata G.A., Hasman H., Sadykova A., Llopis F., Ramosaco E., Logar M., Alay H., Kesmez-Can F., Ruch Y., Bulut D., Makek M.J., Marino A., Mahboob A., El-Kholy A., Abdallah D., Sefa-Sayar M., Karaali R., Aslan S., Dar R.E., Abdalla E., Monzon-Camps H., Baljic R., Mgdalena D.I., Naghili B., Abbas Dafalla M.E., Alwashmi A.S.S., Carmen C.R., Ramirez-Estrada S., Wojewodzka-Zelezniakowicz M., Akyildiz O., Zajkowska J., El-Sokkary R., Pandya N., Amer F., Alavi-Darazam I., Grgic S., Wegdan A.A., El-Kholy J., Bulut-Avsar C., Kulzhanova S., Tasbakan M., Kumari H.P., Dirani N., Koganti K., Konkayev A.K., Petrov M.M., Cascio A., Liskova A., Del Vecchio R.F., Lambertenghi L., Mladenov N., Oncu S., and Rello J.
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Point prevalence survey, medicine.medical_specialty, Urologic Neoplasms, Referral, international ID-IRI study-, JOURNAL OF CHEMOTHERAPY, 2021 [Erdem H., Hargreaves S., ANKARALI H., ÇAŞKURLU H., Ceviker S. A. , Bahar-Kacmaz A., Meric-Koc M., ALTINDİŞ M., Yildiz-Kirazaldi Y., Kizilates F., et al., -Managing adult patients with infectious diseases in emergency departments], medicine.drug_class, Organ Dysfunction Scores, 030106 microbiology, Antibiotics, Practice Patterns, emergency, antibiotic, elderly, infection, sepsis, treatment, Global Health, Communicable Diseases, Sepsis, Hospital, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Humans, Pharmacology (medical), Practice Patterns, Physicians', Developing Countries, Respiratory Tract Infections, Pharmacology, Emergency Service, Physicians', Adult patients, business.industry, Patient Acuity, Antimicrobial, medicine.disease, humanities, Drug Utilization, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis, Emergency medicine, Emergency, sepsi, business, Emergency Service, Hospital
Abstract: We aimed to explore factors for optimizing antimicrobial treatment in emergency departments. A single-day point prevalence survey was conducted on January 18, 2020, in 53 referral/tertiary hospitals in 22 countries. 1957 (17%) of 11557 patients presenting to EDs had infections. The mean qSOFA score was 0.37 +/- 0.74. Sepsis (qSOFA >= 2) was recorded in 218 (11.1%) patients. The mean qSOFA score was significantly higher in low-middle (1.48 +/- 0.963) compared to upper-middle (0.17 +/- 0.482) and high-income (0.36 +/- 0.714) countries ( P < 0.001). Eight (3.7%) patients with sepsis were treated as outpatients. The most common diagnoses were upper-respiratory (n = 877, 43.3%), lower-respiratory (n = 316, 16.1%), and lower-urinary (n = 201, 10.3%) infections. 1085 (55.4%) patients received antibiotics. The most-commonly used antibiotics were beta-lactam (BL) and BL inhibitors (n = 307, 15.7%), third-generation cephalosporins (n = 251, 12.8%), and quinolones (n = 204, 10.5%). Irrational antibiotic use and inappropriate hospitalization decisions seemed possible. Patients were more septic in countries with limited resources. Hence, a better organizational scheme is required.
Published: 2021

6. Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infective endocarditis: Turkish consensus report-2019*

Author: Arif Atahan Çağatay, Nesrin Turhan, Ahmet Rüçhan Akar, Tuncay Hazirolan, Serap Simsek-Yavuz, Seniha Başaran, Meliha Meric-Koc, Hakan Demir, Murat Sargın, Elif Tükenmez-Tigen, Neziha Yılmaz, Yasemin Cag, Ayşegül Yeşilkaya, Emel Yilmaz, Nirgül Kılıçaslan, Mutlu Şeyda Velioğlu-Öcalmaz, Ayfer Şensoy, Şirin Menekşe, Mehmet Emirhan Işık, Lokman Hızmalı, Yeşim Uygun-Kızmaz, Necla Ozer, Güle Çınar Aydın, Serpil Öztürk, Sinan Aydoğdu, Denef Deniz, Mehmet Ali Özatik, Özlem Kurt Azap, Nursen Topcuoglu, Fatma Yilmaz-Karadag, Yasemin Tezer-Tekçe, Sibel Doğan Kaya, Mehmet Yilmaz, and MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA
Subjects: lcsh:Internal medicine, lcsh:Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system, medicine.medical_specialty, Consensus, Turkey, Turkish, Cardiology, MEDLINE, lcsh:Medicine, medicine, Humans, infective endocarditis, lcsh:RC31-1245, Intensive care medicine, Societies, Medical, consensus report, Endocarditis, business.industry, lcsh:R, medicine.disease, language.human_language, Diagnosis treatment, lcsh:RC666-701, Infective endocarditis, language, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, business
Abstract: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but still important as an infectious disease due to high rate of morbidity and substantial mortality. Although IE is not a notifiable disease in Turkey, and an incidence study has not been performed, the incidence may be higher than that in the developed countries due to frequent predisposing cardiac conditions and higher rates of nosocomial bacteremia, which may lead to IE in risk groups. IE generally affects the elderly in developed countries but it is frequently encountered among young individuals in Turkey. In order to reduce mortality and morbidity, it is critical to diagnose IE, to determine the causative agent, and to start treatment rapidly. Most patients cannot be diagnosed at the first visit, about half can be diagnosed after 3 months, and the disease often goes unnoticed. In patients diagnosed with IE, the rate of the identification of a causative organism is significantly lower in Turkey than that in developed countries. Some important microbiological diagnostic tests are not performed in most centers and several antimicrobials that are recommended as the first option for the treatment particularly antistaphylococcal penicillins, are unavailable in Turkey. These problems necessitate reviewing the epidemiological, laboratory, and clinical characteristics of IE in our country, as well as the current information about its diagnosis, treatment, and prevention together with local data. The diagnosis and treatment processes of IE should be standardized at every stage so that the management can be conducted in a setting in which physicians of various specialties are involved and is consistent with the current recommendations. The Study Group for Infective Endocarditis and Other Cardiovascular Infections of the Turkish Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases called for the collaboration of the relevant specialist organizations to establish a consensus report on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of IE in the context of current information and local data in Turkey.
Published: 2020

7. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium report, data summary of 50 countries for 2010-2015: Device-associated module

Author: Víctor Daniel Rosenthal, Hail M. Al-Abdely, Amani Ali El-Kholy, Safa A Aziz AlKhawaja, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Yatin Mehta, Vineya Rai, Nguyen Viet Hung, Souha Sami Kanj, Mona Foda Salama, Estuardo Salgado-Yepez, Naheed Elahi, Rayo Morfin Otero, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Braulio Matias De Carvalho, Bat Erdene Ider, Dale Fisher, Maria Carmen S.G. Buenaflor, Michael M. Petrov, Ana Marcela Quesada-Mora, Farid Zand, Vaidotas Gurskis, Tanja Anguseva, Aamer Ikram, Daisy Aguilar de Moros, Wieslawa Duszynska, Nepomuceno Mejia, Florin George Horhat, Vladislav Belskiy, Vesna Mioljevic, Gabriela Di Silvestre, Katarina Furova, Gloria Y. Ramos-Ortiz, May Osman Gamar Elanbya, Hindra Irawan Satari, Umesh Gupta, Tarek Dendane, Lul Raka, Humberto Guanche-Garcell, Bijie Hu, Denis Padgett, Kushlani Jayatilleke, Najla Ben Jaballah, Eleni Apostolopoulou, Walter Enrique Prudencio Leon, Alejandra Sepulveda-Chavez, Hector Miguel Telechea, Andrew Trotter, Carlos Alvarez-Moreno, Luis Kushner-Davalos, J.E. Desse, D.M. Maurizi, A.M. Montanini, G.J. Chaparro, J.P. Stagnaro, A. Romani, A.C. Bianchi, G. Álvarez, A. Palaoro, M. Bernan, R. Cabrera-Montesino, C. Domínguez, C.G. Rodríguez, C.G. Silva, E. Bogdanowicz, F.O. Riera, G. Benchetrit, I. Perez, J. Vimercati, L.S. Marcos, L. Ramasco, M. Caridi, M.C. Oyola, M.C. Rodríguez, M.L. Spadaro, M.S. Olivieri, P. Saul, P.D. Juarez, R.H. Pérez, P. Botta, D.Q. Quintana, A.M. Ríos, V. Chediack, W. Chilon, Ameena Isa Alsayegh, Fatema Hasan Yaseen, Lateefa Fardan Hani, Saleh Fakher Sowar, Tahira Anwar Magray, E.A. Medeiros, A. Alves De Oliveira, A. Romario-Mendes, C. Fernandes-Valente, C. Santos, D. Escudeiro, D. Azevedo-Ferreira Lima, D. Azevedo-Pereira, E.M. Onzi-Siliprandi, F. Serpa-Maia, F. Aguiar-Leitao, G. Assuncao-Ponte, J. Dos Anjos-Lima, J. Olszewski, K. Harten Pinto Coelho, L.F. Alves De Lima, M. Mendonca, M.L. Maciel-Canuto Amaral, M.T. Tenorio, S. Gerah, M. Andrade-Oliveira-Reis, M. Moreira, M. Ximenes-Rocha Batista, R.S. Campos-Uchoa, R. 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Abstract: Hasan, M. Shahnaz/0000-0002-7493-7416; Abouqal, Redouane/0000-0002-6117-4341; Altindis, Mustafa/0000-0003-0411-9669; Masjedi, Mansoor/0000-0001-6175-9289; Popescu, Roxana/0000-0002-9387-1141; Mikaszewska-Sokolewicz, Malgorzata A/0000-0002-1148-7817; Meco, Basak Ceyda/0000-0003-2951-9634; Kumar, Perikala Vijayananda/0000-0001-8315-7000; Zand, Farid/0000-0003-3489-3372; Maghsoudi, Behzad/0000-0002-1279-8799; KAMARUL ZAMAN, MAZUIN/0000-0002-7920-6399; Gan, Chin Seng/0000-0002-6758-4798; Horoz, Ozden Ozgur/0000-0001-7590-650X; Medeiros, Eduardo A/0000-0002-6205-259X; Sabetian, Golnar/0000-0001-8764-2150; UNAL, SERHAT/0000-0003-1184-4711; Gan, Chin Seng/0000-0002-6758-4798; Delia, Muntean/0000-0001-9100-4530; Yalcin, Ata Nevzat/0000-0002-7243-7354; Leblebicioglu, Hakan/0000-0002-6033-8543; Horhat, Florin George/0000-0001-6133-0204; Yousef, Reham H. A./0000-0003-4004-3008; Delgado Aguirre, Hector Alberto/0000-0001-5448-7975; El Kholy, Amani/0000-0002-0645-7664; Rodriguez Ferrer, Marena Luz/0000-0002-8053-8454; Sanaei Dashti, Anahita/0000-0002-2827-3575; KARABAY, OGUZ/0000-0003-1514-1685; Barahona G., Nayide/0000-0003-3559-6900; Stagnaro, Juan Pablo/0000-0003-3836-9957; Alexandru Florin, Rogobete/0000-0003-1286-4431; KAYA, ZEYNEP/0000-0002-8468-2103; Dragan, Barbara/0000-0003-3108-4211; alvarez Moreno, carlos Arturo/0000-0001-5419-4494; Gonzalez Martinez, Marisela del Rocio/0000-0003-1474-736X; Jayatilleke, Kushlani/0000-0002-3931-6630; Unal, Necmettin/0000-0002-9440-7893; Duszynska, Wieslawa/0000-0002-5880-4904; Ngo, Quy Chau/0000-0002-6787-2757; Elmanakhly, Arwa/0000-0001-8557-0536; yildizdas, dincer/0000-0003-0739-5108; Kanj, Souha/0000-0001-6413-3396; Gupta, Umesh/0000-0001-7717-1404 WOS: 000392626300014 PubMed: 27742143 Background: We report the results of International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2010-December 2015 in 703 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific. Methods: During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare Safety Network (CDC-NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infection (DAHAI), we collected prospective data from861,284 patients hospitalized in INICC hospital ICUs for an aggregate of 3,506,562 days. Results: Although device use in INICC ICUs was similar to that reported from CDC-NHSN ICUs, DA-HAI rates were higher in the INICC ICUs: in the INICC medical-surgical ICUs, the pooled rate of central lineassociated bloodstream infection, 4.1 per 1,000 central line-days, was nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.8 per 1,000 central line-days reported from comparable US ICUs, the overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher, 13.1 versus 0.9 per 1,000 ventilator-days, as was the rate of catheterassociated urinary tract infection, 5.07 versus 1.7 per 1,000 catheter-days. From blood cultures samples, frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (29.87% vs 10%) and to imipenem (44.3% vs 26.1%), and of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (73.2% vs 28.8%) and to imipenem (43.27% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC ICUs compared with CDC-NHSN ICUs. Conclusions: Although DA-HAIs in INICC ICU patients continue to be higher than the rates reported in CDC-NSHN ICUs representing the developed world, we have observed a significant trend toward the reduction of DA-HAI rates in INICC ICUs as shown in each international report. It is INICC's main goal to continue facilitating education, training, and basic and cost-effective tools and resources, such as standardized forms and an online platform, to tackle this problem effectively and systematically. (C) 2016 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. VDR; Foundation to Fight against Nosocomial Infections The funding for design, development, maintenance, technical support, data validation, and report generation of the Surveillance Online System, and the activities carried out at International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium headquarters, were provided by VDR and the Foundation to Fight against Nosocomial Infections.
Published: 2016

8. Portraying infective endocarditis

Author: Ilker Inanc Balkan, Najada Como, André Silva-Pinto, Antonio Cascio, Canan Agalar, Meliha Meric-Koc, Tatjana Lejko Zupanc, Oday Abu Ajamieh, Simin Aysel Florescu, Selma Tosun, Meltem Taşbakan, Asuman Inan, Rosa Fontana Del Vecchio, Edmond Puca, Güven Çelebi, Ayse Sagmak-Tartar, Abdullah Umut Pekok, Yasemin Cag, Gülden Ersöz, Sumeyra Karakus, Safak Ozer-Balin, Jamal Wadi, Sukran Kose, Yves Hansmann, Hacer Deniz Ozkaya, Nefise Oztoprak, Hakan Erdem, Serkan Oncu, Jesper Damsgaard Gunst, Yvon Ruch, Aysegul Erdem, Gilda Tonziello, Ayse Batirel, Rahmet Guner, Irina Magdalena Dumitru, Lurdes Santos, Raquel Duro, Nesrin Ghanem-Zoubi, Arjeta Dedej, Serda Gulsun, Mustafa Dogan, Necla Tulek, Alper Şener, Pedro Palma Martins, Ilkay Bozkurt, Deborah Konopnicki, Fatma Sirmatel, Xavier Argemi, Meltem Avci, Fahad Almajid, Recep Tekin, Nicola Petrosillo, Corneliu Petru Popescu, Ayse Kaya-Kalem, Imran Hasanoglu, Atilla Iyisoy, Jean Philippe Mazzucotelli, Ejaz Ahmed Khan, Sema Sarı, Derya Ozturk-Engin, Nicolas Dauby, Erdem H., Puca E., Ruch Y., Santos L., Ghanem-Zoubi N., Argemi X., Hansmann Y., Guner R., Tonziello G., Mazzucotelli J.-P., Como N., Kose S., Batirel A., Inan A., Tulek N., Pekok A.U., Khan E.A., Iyisoy A., Meric-Koc M., Kaya-Kalem A., Martins P.P., Hasanoglu I., Silva-Pinto A., Oztoprak N., Duro R., Almajid F., Dogan M., Dauby N., Gunst J.D., Tekin R., Konopnicki D., Petrosillo N., Bozkurt I., Wadi J., Popescu C., Balkan I.I., Ozer-Balin S., Zupanc T.L., Cascio A., Dumitru I.M., Erdem A., Ersoz G., Tasbakan M., Ajamieh O.A., Sirmatel F., Florescu S., Gulsun S., Ozkaya H.D., Sari S., Tosun S., Avci M., Cag Y., Celebi G., Sagmak-Tartar A., Karakus S., Sener A., Dedej A., Oncu S., Del Vecchio R.F., Ozturk-Engin D., Agalar C., Virulence Bactérienne Précoce : fonctions cellulaires et contrôle de l'infection aigüe et subaigüe, Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA), Virulence bactérienne précoce : fonctions cellulaires et contrôle de l'infection aiguë et subaiguë, Nanomédecine Régénérative (NanoRegMed), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, İÜC, Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Uşak Üniversitesi, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit Üniversitesi, BAİBÜ, Tıp Fakültesi, Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Sırmatel, Fatma, and OMÜ
Subjects: Male, Internationality, Aucun, Infective endocarditi, medicine.disease_cause, Medical microbiology, 80 and over, Blood culture, Hospital Mortality, Aged, 80 and over, medicine.diagnostic_test, biology, Endocarditis, Bacterial, General Medicine, Sciences bio-médicales et agricoles, Middle Aged, Staphylococcal Infections, Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]/Microbiologie et Parasitologie, Viridans Streptococci, Catheter, Infectious Diseases, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Staphylococcus aureus, Infective endocarditis, Aortic Valve, Mitral Valve, Female, Microbiology (medical), Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Prosthesis-Related Infections, Adolescent, aureus, Young Adult, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, results of multinational ID-IRI study-, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES, cilt.38, ss.1753-1763, 2019 [Erdem H., Puca E., Ruch Y., Santos L., Ghanem-Zoubi N., Argemi X., Hansmann Y., Guner R., Tonziello G., Mazzucotelli J., et al., -Portraying infective endocarditis], Prosthetic, Aged, Native Valve Endocarditis, Bacteria, business.industry, Endocarditis, Bacterial, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, S. aureus, Viridans streptococci, business, Native
Abstract: Infective endocarditis is a growing problem with many shifts due to ever-increasing comorbid illnesses, invasive procedures, and increase in the elderly. We performed this multinational study to depict definite infective endocarditis. Adult patients with definite endocarditis hospitalized between January 1, 2015, and October 1, 2018, were included from 41 hospitals in 13 countries. We included microbiological features, types and severity of the disease, complications, but excluded therapeutic parameters. A total of 867 patients were included. A total of 631 (72.8%) patients had native valve endocarditis (NVE), 214 (24.7%) patients had prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE), 21 (2.4%) patients had pacemaker lead endocarditis, and 1 patient had catheter port endocarditis. Eighteen percent of NVE patients were hospital-acquired. PVE patients were classified as early-onset in 24.9%. A total of 385 (44.4%) patients had major embolic events, most frequently to the brain (n = 227, 26.3%). Blood cultures yielded pathogens in 766 (88.4%). In 101 (11.6%) patients, blood cultures were negative. Molecular testing of vegetations disclosed pathogens in 65 cases. Overall, 795 (91.7%) endocarditis patients had any identified pathogen. Leading pathogens (Staphylococcus aureus (n = 267, 33.6%), Streptococcus viridans (n = 149, 18.7%), enterococci (n = 128, 16.1%), coagulase-negative staphylococci (n = 92, 11.6%)) displayed substantial resistance profiles. A total of 132 (15.2%) patients had cardiac abscesses; 693 (79.9%) patients had left-sided endocarditis. Aortic (n = 394, 45.4%) and mitral valves (n = 369, 42.5%) were most frequently involved. Mortality was more common in PVE than NVE (NVE (n = 101, 16%), PVE (n = 49, 22.9%), p = 0.042)., SCOPUS: ar.j, info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Published: 2019

9. Comparison of brucellar and tuberculous spondylodiscitis patients: results of the multicenter 'Backbone-1 Study'

Author: Tumer Guven, Hakan Erdem, Rehab H. El-Sokkary, Dilara Inan, Serda Gulsun, Fatma Yilmaz-Karadag, Gunay Tuncer-Ertem, Elif Sahin Horasan, Şafak Kaya, Ali İrfan Baran, Recep Tekin, Archontoula Fragou, Seniha Senbayrak, Esra Arslanalp, Fatma Sirmatel, Selçuk Kaya, Ayşe Willke, Salih Cesur, Sani H. Aliyu, Ergys Ramosaco, Meliha Meric-Koc, Meltem Taşbakan, Sukran Kose, Gönül Aslan, Efthymia Giannitsioti, Gonul Sengoz, Haluk Vahaboglu, Nazif Elaldi, Selma Ates-Guler, Birgul Mete, Sesin Kocagöz, Hulya Kusoglu, Ertugrul Guclu, Dilek Yildiz Sevgi, Hava Yilmaz, Gulfem Akengin Ocal, Ayse Batirel, Behiye Dede, Birsen Cetin, Tunc Oktenoglu, D. Ashraf ALGallad, Mehmet Ulug, Sebnem Senol, Banu Karaca, Ilker Inanc Balkan, Aygul Dogan-Celik, Nural Bekiroglu, Gonul Cicek-Senturk, Filiz Pehlivanoglu, Asuman Inan, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, Erdem, H, Elaldi, N, Batirel, A, Aliyu, S, Sengoz, G, Pehlivanoglu, F, Ramosaco, E, Gulsun, S, Tekin, R, Mete, B, Balkan, II, Sevgi, DY, Giannitsioti, E, Fragou, A, Kaya, S, Cetin, B, Oktenoglu, T, DoganCelik, A, Karaca, B, Horasan, ES, Ulug, M, Man, A, Arslanalp, E, Ates-Guler, S, Willke, A, Senol, S, Inan, D, Guclu, E, Tuncer-Ertem, G, Meric-Koc, M, Tasbakan, M, Senbayrak, S, Cicek-Senturk, G, Sirmatel, F, Ocal, G, Kocagoz, S, Kusoglu, H, Guven, T, Baran, AI, Dede, B, Yilmaz-Karadag, F, Kose, S, Yilmaz, H, Asian, G, Algallad, DA, Cesur, S, El-Sokkary, R, Bekiroglu, N, Vahaboglu, H, Sakarya Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Güçlü, Ertuğrul, [Erdem, Hakan] Culhane Med Acad, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Elaldi, Nazif] Cumhuriyet Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sivas, Turkey -- [Batirel, Ayse -- Ocal, Gulfem] Dr Lao Kirdar Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Aliyu, Sani] Cambridge Univ Hosp Fdn Trust, Addenbrookes Hosp, Clin Microbiol & Publ Hlth Lab, Cambridge, England -- [Sengoz, Gonul -- Pehlivanoglu, Filiz] Haseki Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Ramosaco, Ergys] Univ Hosp Ctr Mother Teresa, Infect Dis Hosp, Tirana, Albania -- [Gulsun, Serda -- Kaya, Safak] Diyarbakir Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- [Tekin, Recep] Dicle Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Diyarbakir, Turkey -- [Mete, Birgul -- Balkan, Ilker Inanc] Istanbul Univ, Cerrahpasa Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Sevgi, Dilek Yildiz] Sisli Etfal Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Giannitsioti, Efthymia -- Fragou, Archontoula] Attikon Univ Gen Hosp, Athens Univ Med Sch, Dept Internal Med, Athens, Greece -- [Kaya, Selcuk] Karadeniz Tech Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Trabzon, Turkey -- [Cetin, Birsen] Koc Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Oktenoglu, Tune] Koc Univ, Sch Med, Dept Neurosurg, Istanbul, Turkey -- [DoganCelik, Aygul] Trakya Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Edirne, Turkey -- [Karaca, Banu] Izmir Bozyaka Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Horasan, Elif Sahin] Mersin Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Mersin, Turkey -- [Ulug, Mehmet] Private Umit Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Eskisehir, Turkey -- [Man, Asuman -- Senbayrak, Seniha] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Arslanalp, Esra -- Willke, Ayse -- Meric-Koc, Meliha] Kocaeli Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Kocaeli, Turkey -- [Ates-Guler, Selma] Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, TR-46050 Kahramanmaras, Turkey -- [Senol, Sebnem] Celal Bayar Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Manisa, Turkey -- [Inan, Dilara] Akdeniz Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, TR-07058 Antalya, Turkey -- [Guclu, Ertugrul] Sakarya Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Sakarya, Turkey -- [Tuncer-Ertem, Gunay -- Cesur, Salih] Ankara Numune Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Tasbakan, Meitem] Ege Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Cicek-Senturk, Gonul -- Asian, Gonul] Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Sirmatel, Fatma] Abant Izzet Baysal Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Bolu, Turkey -- [Kocagoz, Sesin -- Kusoglu, Hulya] Acibadem Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Guven, Turner] Ankara Ataturk Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Ankara, Turkey -- [Baran, Ali Irfan] Yuzuncu Yil Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Van, Turkey -- [Dede, Behiye] Umraniye Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Yilmaz-Karadag, Fatma -- Vahaboglu, Haluk] Medeniyet Univ, Goztepe Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Kose, Sukran] Tepecik Training & Res Hosp, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Izmir, Turkey -- [Yilmaz, Hava] Ondokuz Mayis Univ, Sch Med, Dept Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Samsun, Turkey -- [Algallad, D. Ashraf -- El-Sokkary, Rehab] Zagazig Univ Hosp, Infect Control Unit, Az Zagazig, Egypt -- [Bekiroglu, Nural] Marmara Univ, Sch Med, Dept Biostat, Istanbul, Turkey, VAHABOGLU, Haluk -- 0000-0001-8217-1767, and Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi
Subjects: Adult, Male, Spondylodiscitis, endocrine system, medicine.medical_specialty, Discitis, Constitutional symptoms, Context (language use), Brucellosis, Sequelae, Internal medicine, medicine, Back pain, Humans, Tuberculosis, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Abscess, Outcome, Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Surgery, Orthopedics, Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, Female, Neurology (clinical), medicine.symptom, Complication, business
Abstract: WOS: 000366655100045, PubMed ID: 26386176, BACKGROUND CONTEXT: No direct comparison between brucellar spondylodiscitis (BSD) and tuberculous spondylodiscitis (TSD) exists in the literature. PURPOSE: This study aimed to compare directly the clinical features, laboratory and radiological aspects, treatment, and outcome data of patients diagnosed as BSD and TSD. STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective, multinational, and multicenter study was used. PATIENT SAMPLE: A total of 641 (TSD, 314 and BSD, 327) spondylodiscitis patients from 35 different centers in four countries (Turkey, Egypt, Albania, and Greece) were included. OUTCOME MEASURES: The pre- and peri- or post-treatment spinal deformity and neurologic deficit parameters, and mortality were carried out. METHODS: Brucellar spondylodiscitis and TSD groups were compared for demographics, clinical, laboratory, radiological, surgical interventions, treatment, and outcome data. The Student t test and Mann-Whitney U test were used for group comparisons. Significance was analyzed as two sided and inferred at 0.05 levels. RESULTS: The median baseline laboratory parameters including white blood cell count, C-reactive protein, and erythrocyte sedimentation rate were higher in TSD than BSD (p
Published: 2015

10. Epidemiological and molecular characteristics of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Turkey: A multicentre study

Author: Ayşe Willke, Meliha Meric Koc, Celal Ayaz, Akgün Yaman, Murat Sayan, Devrim Dündar, Bülent Sümerkan, Özay Arıkan Akan, Nese Saltoglu, Iftihar Koksal, Çukurova Üniversitesi, and MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Microbiology (medical), Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Turkey, Epidemiology, 030106 microbiology, Immunology, Erythromycin, MRSA, Biology, medicine.disease_cause, Staphylococcal infections, Microbiology, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, medicine, Immunology and Allergy, Humans, Molecular characteristics, 030212 general & internal medicine, Typing, Cross Infection, SCCmec, Sulfamethoxazole, Clindamycin, biochemical phenomena, metabolism, and nutrition, Staphylococcal Infections, bacterial infections and mycoses, medicine.disease, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Virology, Trimethoprim, Genes, Bacterial, medicine.drug
Abstract: PubMedID: 27530838 The aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiological and molecular features of clinical meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates in Turkey. MRSA isolates were collected from six regions of Turkey. The mecA and nuc genes were detected by PCR. Antimicrobial susceptibilities were determined by the disk diffusion method. Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) and staphylococcal protein A (spa) typing were performed by the sequencing method for 270 randomly selected MRSA isolates. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) definition was used for epidemiological diagnosis of community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA). Resistance rates of MRSA to ciprofloxacin, gentamicin, clindamycin, erythromycin, rifampicin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole and tetracycline were 93.4%, 81.2%, 38.5%, 57.8%, 93.9%, 1.1% and 93.1%, respectively. The most frequent SCCmec type was SCCmec III (91.1%). SCCmec type IV was found in 5.2% of the isolates. The most frequent spa type was t030 (81.1%). Five isolates were CA-MRSA if only the epidemiological definition was used (5/725; 0.7%). Two isolates were defined as CA-MRSA both by epidemiological features and SCCmec typing (2/270; 0.7%). Of 14 SCCmec type IV isolates, 12 were not defined as CA-MRSA by epidemiological features. In conclusion, this is the most comprehensive multicentre study in Turkey investigating MRSA using both epidemiological and genotypic features. The CA-MRSA rate is low in Turkey. Combined use of epidemiological and genotypic methods is the most accurate approach for the diagnosis of CA-MRSA. © 2016, Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Firat University Scientific Research Projects Management Unit This work was supported by the Scientific Research Unit of Kocaeli University (Kocaeli, Turkey) [2005/3].
Published: 2015

11. Surgical site infection rates in 16 cities in Turkey: findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)

Author: Ahmet Şahin, Iftihar Koksal, Gaye Usluer, Hülya Sungurtekin, Tanıl Kendirli, Selçuk Kaya, Eylul Gumus, Gürdal Yýlmaz, Mehmet Faruk Geyik, Ertugrul Guclu, Nurettin Erben, Tuna Demirdal, Tuncer Haznedaroglu, Huseyin Turgut, Levent Gorenek, Erdal Ince, Melek Güneş, Hava Yilmaz, Necdet Kuyucu, Suzan Sacar, Alper Şener, Oguz Dursun, Nefise Oztoprak, Ahmet Dilek, Fatma Sirmatel, Ergin Çiftçi, Meliha Meric, Gulsume Kaya, Mustafa Sunbul, Metin Otkun, Emel Azak, Fatma Ülger, Gülden Ersöz, Yunus Gürbüz, Ayşe Willke, Sehnaz Kaya, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Oral Oncul, Davut Ozdemir, Nevin Taşyapar, Ali Acar, Ediz Tutuncu, Zeynep Kaya, Doğaç Uğurcan, Oguz Karabay, Victor D. Rosenthal, Fazilet Duygu, Saban Esen, Ali Kaya, Ata Nevzat Yalcin, Hülya Ulusoy, Gunes Senol, Adem Karbuz, Turan Aslan, Özge Turhan, Selvi Erdogan, Cengiz Uzun, Ilhan Ozgunes, Leblebicioglu, H, Erben, N, Rosenthal, VD, Sener, A, Uzun, C, Senol, G, Ersoz, G, Demirdal, T, Duygu, F, Willke, A, Sirmatel, F, Oztoprak, N, Koksal, I, Oncul, O, Gurbuz, Y, Guclu, E, Turgut, H, Yalcin, AN, Ozdemir, D, Kendirli, T, Aslan, T, Esen, S, Ulger, F, Dilek, A, Yilmaz, H, Sunbul, M, Ozgunes, I, Usluer, G, Otkun, M, Kaya, A, Kuyucu, N, Kaya, Z, Meric, M, Azak, E, Yylmaz, G, Kaya, S, Ulusoy, H, Haznedaroglu, T, Gorenek, L, Acar, A, Tutuncu, E, Karabay, O, Kaya, G, Sacar, S, Sungurtekin, H, Ugurcan, D, Turhan, O, Gumus, E, Dursun, O, Geyik, MF, Sahin, A, Erdogan, S, Ince, E, Karbuz, A, Ciftci, E, Tasyapar, N, Gunes, M, Sakarya Üniversitesi/Tıp Fakültesi/Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Güçlü, Ertuğrul, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, and Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi
Subjects: Turkey, Epidemiology, Surgical wound infection, Health careeassociated infection, Turkey (republic), Cohort Studies, hip prosthesis, Nosocomial infection, Prospective Studies, hospital, Prospective cohort study, Health Policy, craniotomy, clinical trial, cohort analysis, Hospitals, hospital patient, Infectious Diseases, Cohort, Surgical site infection, Cohort study, prospective study, medicine.medical_specialty, Health care-associated infection, prevalence, education, infection rate, surgical infection, Article, Developing countries, coronary artery bypass graft, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Hospital infection, human, Cities, cesarean section, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)-, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL, cilt.43, ss.48-52, 2015 [Leblebicioglu H., Erben N., ROSENTHAL V. D. , ŞENER A., UZUN C., SENOL G., Ersoz G., Demirdal T., DUYGU F., Willke A., et al., -Surgical site infection rates in 16 cities in Turkey], Nosocomial infection control, Confidence interval, shunting, Surgery, Clinical trial, multicenter study, city, business
Abstract: Yalcin, Ata Nevzat/0000-0002-7243-7354; dursun, oguz/0000-0001-5482-3780; Oncul, Oral/0000-0002-1681-1866; Leblebicioglu, Hakan/0000-0002-6033-8543; demirdal, tuna/0000-0002-9046-5666; Ciftci, Ergin/0000-0002-4955-160X; Erben, Nurettin/0000-0003-0373-0132; Kendirli, Tanil/0000-0001-9458-2803; Acar, Ali/0000-0003-2008-5112; Geyik, Mehmet Faruk/0000-0002-0906-0902; Dursun, Oguz/0000-0001-5482-3780; KAYA, ZEYNEP/0000-0002-8468-2103; KARABAY, OGUZ/0000-0003-1514-1685; Karabay, Oguz/0000-0003-0502-432X; Kaya, Sehnaz/0000-0003-0002-1517 WOS: 000347654600011 PubMed: 25564124 Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a threat to patient safety; however, there were no available data on SSI rates stratified by surgical procedure (SP) in Turkey. Methods: Between January 2005 and December 2011, a cohort prospective surveillance study on SSIs was conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) in 20 hospitals in 16 Turkish cities. Data from hospitalized patients were registered using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) methods and definitions for SSIs. Surgical procedures (SPs) were classified into 22 types according to International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision criteria. Results: We recorded 1879 SSIs, associated with 41,563 SPs (4.3%; 95% confidence interval, 4.3-4.7). Among the results, the SSI rate per type of SP compared with rates reported by the INICC and CDC NHSN were 11.9% for ventricular shunt (vs 12.9% vs 5.6%); 5.3% for craniotomy (vs 4.4% vs 2.6%); 4.9% for coronary bypass with chest and donor incision (vs 4.5 vs 2.9); 3.5% for hip prosthesis (vs 2.6% vs 1.3%), and 3.0% for cesarean section (vs 0.7% vs 1.8%). Conclusions: In most of the 22 types of SP analyzed, our SSI rates were higher than the CDC NHSN rates and similar to the INICC rates. This study advances the knowledge of SSI epidemiology in Turkey, allowing the implementation of targeted interventions. Copyright (C) 2015 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2015

12. The course of spinal tuberculosis (Pott disease): results of the multinational, multicentre Backbone-2 study

Author: A. Batirel, H. Erdem, G. Sengoz, F. Pehlivanoglu, E. Ramosaco, S. Gülsün, R. Tekin, B. Mete, İ.İ. Balkan, D.Y. Sevgi, E. Giannitsioti, A. Fragou, S. Kaya, B. Cetin, T. Oktenoglu, A.D. Celik, B. Karaca, E.S. Horasan, M. Ulug, S. Senbayrak, E. Arslanalp, R. Hasbun, S. Ates-Guler, A. Willke, S. Senol, D. Inan, E. Güclü, G.T. Ertem, M.M. Koc, M. Tasbakan, G. Ocal, S. Kocagoz, H. Kusoglu, T. Güven, A.I. Baran, B. Dede, F.Y. Karadag, H. Yilmaz, G. Aslan, D.A. Al-Gallad, S. Cesur, R. El-Sokkary, F. Sirmatel, U. Savasci, G. Karaahmetoglu, H. Vahaboglu, OMÜ, Ege Üniversitesi, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, Acibadem University Dspace, BAİBÜ, Tıp Fakültesi, Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, and Sırmatel, Fatma
Subjects: Adult, Male, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Endemic Diseases, International Cooperation, Antitubercular Agents, Kyphosis, Gibbus deformity, Scoliosis, Pott disease, Young Adult, Vertebral osteomyelitis, Humans, Medicine, Spondylitis, Aged, Retrospective Studies, Aged, 80 and over, Mediterranean Region, business.industry, Osteomyelitis, ComputerSystemsOrganization_COMPUTER-COMMUNICATIONNETWORKS, Spondylodiscitis, vertebral osteomyelitis, spondylitis, General Medicine, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, spinal tuberculosis, Survival Analysis, Surgery, ComputingMilieux_MANAGEMENTOFCOMPUTINGANDINFORMATIONSYSTEMS, Treatment Outcome, Infectious Diseases, ComputingMethodologies_PATTERNRECOGNITION, Surgical Procedures, Operative, Spinal tuberculosis, Female, Tuberculosis, Spinal, spondylodiscitis, InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS, business, Paraplegia
Abstract: PubMed ID: 26232534, We aimed to describe clinical, laboratory, diagnostic and therapeutic features of spinal tuberculosis (ST), also known as Pott disease. A total of 314 patients with ST from 35 centres in Turkey, Egypt, Albania and Greece were included. Median duration from initial symptoms to the time of diagnosis was 78 days. The most common complications presented before diagnosis were abscesses (69%), neurologic deficits (40%), spinal instability (21%) and spinal deformity (16%). Lumbar (56%), thoracic (49%) and thoracolumbar (13%) vertebrae were the most commonly involved sites of infection. Although 51% of the patients had multiple levels of vertebral involvement, 8% had noncontiguous involvement of multiple vertebral bodies. The causative agent was identified in 41% of cases. Histopathologic examination was performed in 200 patients (64%), and 74% were consistent with tuberculosis. Medical treatment alone was implemented in 103 patients (33%), while 211 patients (67%) underwent diagnostic and/or therapeutic surgical intervention. Ten percent of the patients required more than one surgical intervention. Mortality occurred in 7 patients (2%), and 77 (25%) developed sequelae. The distribution of the posttreatment sequelae were as follows: 11% kyphosis, 6% Gibbus deformity, 5% scoliosis, 5% paraparesis, 5% paraplegia and 4% loss of sensation. Older age, presence of neurologic deficit and spinal deformity were predictors of unfavourable outcome. ST results in significant morbidity as a result of its insidious course and delayed diagnosis because of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. ST should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with vertebral osteomyelitis, especially in tuberculosis-endemic regions. Early establishment of definitive aetiologic diagnosis and appropriate treatment are of paramount importance to prevent development of sequelae. © 2015 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases.
Published: 2015

13. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module

Author: Víctor Daniel Rosenthal, Dennis George Maki, Yatin Mehta, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Ziad Ahmed Memish, Haifaa Hassan Al-Mousa, Hanan Balkhy, Bijie Hu, Carlos Alvarez-Moreno, Eduardo Alexandrino Medeiros, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Lul Raka, Luis E. Cuellar, Altaf Ahmed, Josephine Anne Navoa-Ng, Amani Ali El-Kholy, Souha Sami Kanj, Ider Bat-Erdene, Wieslawa Duszynska, Nguyen Van Truong, Leonardo N. Pazmino, Lucy Chai See-Lum, Rosalia Fernández-Hidalgo, Gabriela Di-Silvestre, Farid Zand, Sona Hlinkova, Vladislav Belskiy, Hussain Al-Rahma, Marco Tulio Luque-Torres, Nesil Bayraktar, Zan Mitrev, Vaidotas Gurskis, Dale Fisher, Ilham Bulos Abu-Khader, Kamal Berechid, Arnaldo Rodríguez-Sánchez, Florin George Horhat, Osiel Requejo-Pino, Nassya Hadjieva, Nejla Ben-Jaballah, Elías García-Mayorca, Luis Kushner-Dávalos, Srdjan Pasic, Luis E. Pedrozo-Ortiz, Eleni Apostolopoulou, Nepomuceno Mejía, May Osman Gamar-Elanbya, Kushlani Jayatilleke, Miriam de Lourdes-Dueñas, Guadalupe Aguirre-Avalos, Diego Marcelo Maurizi, Adriana Montanini, Maria Laura Spadaro, Lorenzo Santiago Marcos, Priscila Botta, Florencia Maria Jerez, Maria Constanza Chavez, Lucia Ramasco, Maria Isabel Colqui, Maria Silvia Olivieri, Ana Silvia Rearte, Gladys Edith Correa, Paola Deolinda Juarez, Paola Fabiana Gallardo, Miriam Patricia Brito, Gabriel Horacio Mendez, Julia Rosa Valdez, Lorena Paola Cardena, Jose Maria Harystoy, Gustavo Jorge Chaparro, Claudia Gabriela Rodriguez, Rodolfo Toomey, Maria Caridi, Monica Viegas, Marisa Liliana Bernan, Adriana Romani, Claudia Beatriz Dominguez, Luis Kushner Davalos, Rosana Richtmann, Camila Almeida Silva, Tatiane T. Rodrigues, Amaury Mielle Filho, Ernandi Dagoberto Seerig Palme, Aline Besen, Caroline Lazzarini, Caroline Batista Cardoso, Francisco Kennedy Azevedo, Ana Paula Fontes Pinheiro, Aparecida Camacho, Braulio Matias De Carvalho, Maria Jose Monteiro De Assis, Ana Paula Vasconcelos Carneiro, Maria Lilian Maciel Canuto, Keyla Harten Pinto Coelho, Tamiris Moreira, Agamenon Alves Oliveira, Marcela Maria Sousa Colares, Marcia Maria De Paula Bessa, Tereza De Jesus Pinheiro Gomes Bandeira, Renata Amaral De Moraes, Danilo Amâncio Campos, Tânia Mara Lima De Barros Araújo, Maria Tereza Freitas Tenório, Simone Amorim, Manuela Amaral, Julianne Da Luz Lima, Lindalva Pino Da Silva Neta, Caphiane Batista, Fabio Jorge De Lima Silva, Maria C. Ferreira De Souza, Katia Arruda Guimaraes, Julia Marcia Maluf Lopes, Karina M. Nogueira Napoles, Lorena Luiza Silva Neto Avelar, Lilian Aguiar Vieira, Luis Gustavo De Oliveira Cardo, Christianne F.V. Takeda, Glaydson A. Ponte, Fco Eduardo Aguiar Leitão, Ricardo De Souza Kuchenbecker, Rodrigo Pires Dos Santos, Erci Maria Onzi Siliprandi, Luiz Fernando Baqueiro Freitas, Ianick Souto Martins, Daiane Casi, Maria Angela Maretti Da Silva, Sergio Blecher, Margarete Villins, Reinaldo Salomao, Solange Regina Oliveira Castro, Daniela V. Da Silva Escudero, Mariana Andrade Oliveira Reis, Marcelo Mendonca, Valter Furlan, Antonio Claudio do Amaral Baruzzi, Tarquino Eristidesg Sanchez, Marina Moreira, Wania Vasconcelos de Freitas, Leonardo Passos de Souza, Velmira Angelova Velinova, Michael M. Petrov, Dimitar Georgiev Karadimov, Emil D. Kostadinov, Violeta Jivkova Dicheva, Chaohua Wang, Xiuqin Guo, Xihua Geng, Shufang Wang, Jinzhi Zhang, Ling Zhu, Shufang Zhuo, Chunli Guo, Tao Lili, Li Ruisheng, Liu Kun, Xuesong Yang, Li Yimin, Mao Pu, Li Changan, Yiang Shumei, Wu Kangxiong, Lin Meiyi, Guxiang Ye, Xu Ziqin, Suo Yao, Song Liqiang, Luis Marino Cañas Giraldo, Elsa Margarita Trujillo Ramirez, Paola Andrea Rios, Juan Carlos Torres Millan, Edwin Giovanny Chapeta Parada, Andres Eduardo Mindiola Rochel, Andres H. Corchuelo Martinez, Ana Marãa Perez Fernandez, Nayide Barahona Guzman, Alfredo Lagares Guzman, Marena Rodriguez Ferrer, Yazmin Leon Vega, Heidi Johanna Munoz, Germán Camacho Moreno, Sandra Liliana Romero Torres, Herlidia Taboada Hernandez, Ismael A. Valderrama MarquezClaudia Linares, Monica Espinosa Valencia, Lusayda Sanchez Corrales, Sandra Milena Bonilla, Jorge Ivan Marin Uribe, David Yepes Gomez, Javier Ospina Martinez, Luz Dary Burgos Florez, Johanna Osorio, Dagoberto Santofimio, Lorena Matta Cortes, Wilmer Villamil-Gomez, Gabriel Munoz Gutierrez, Adela Arguello Ruiz, Carlos Gonzalez Fuentes, Antonio Solano Chinchilla, Ivar Calvo Hernandez, Olber Chavarria Ugalde, Humberto Guanche Garcell, Clara Morales Perez, Selin Bardak, Sumru Ozkan, Nepomuceno Mejia, Adrian M. Puello Guerrero Glenny Mirabal, Margarita Delgado, Ramona Severino, Eliesel Lacerda, Gilda Tolari, María Marcela Bovera, Diego Barahona Pinto, Pedro Fernández González, Gasdali Santacruz, Nelly Alquinga, Celso Zaruma, Nelson Remache, Diego Morocho, Mario Arboleda, Mario Cadena Zapata, Maria Fernanda Garcia, Fabricio Picoita, Jorge Velez, Marcia Valle, Estuardo Salgado Yepez, Diego Morocho Tutillo, Ricardo Arteaga Mora, Andrea Peña Padilla, Mayra Chango, Karina Cabezas, Shirley Tenorio López, Ana Lucía Bonilla Escudero, Gladys Tatiana Sánchez, Hugo Alberto Gonzalez Flores, Islam Abdullorziz Ghazi, Mohamed Hassan, Ghada A. Ismail, Reham Hamed, Mona Mohiedden Abdel-Halim, May Abd El-Fattah, Doaa Abdel-Aziz, Zeinab Salah Seliem, Rasha Hamed Elsherif, Reham Ali Dewdar, Abeer Ahmed Mohmed, Lamiaa Abdel-Fatteh Ahmed, Lilian De Jesus Machuca, Concepcion Bran De Casares, Prokopis Kithreotis, Maria Daganou, Dimitrios Veldekis, Maria Kartsonaki, Achilleas Gikas, Marco Tulio Luque Torres, Denis Padgett, Doris Maribel Rivera, Namita Jaggi, Camilla Rodrigues, Bhagyesh Shah, Keyur Parikh, Jigar Patel, Riya Thakkar, Murali Chakravarthy, B.N. Gokul, R. Sukanya, Leema Pushparaj, Thejas Vini, Sukanya Rangaswamy, Saroj Kumar Patnaik, Vempati Venkateshwar, Biju John, Shamsher Dalal, Suneeta Sahu, Samir Sahu, Banambar Ray, Sudhiranjan Misra, Nisith Mohanty, Biraj Mohan Mishra, Prafulla Sahoo, Naresh Parmar, Sanghamitra Mishra, Basanta Kumar Pati, Santosh Singh, Bhabani Shankar Pati, Aparajita Panda, Swarna Banergee, Dipankar Padhihari, Soumya Samal, Karthikeya Varma, Velu Pandi Suresh Kumar, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Nagarajan Ramakrishnan, Babu Kuruvilla Abraham, Senthilkumar Rajagopal, Ramesh Venkatraman, Ashwin Kumar Mani, Dedeepiya Devaprasad, Lakshmi Ranganathan, Thara Francis, Kotturathu Mammen Cherain, Bala Ramachandran, Ravikumar Krupanandan, S. Muralidharan, Murali Karpagam, Baby Padmini, S. Saranya, Siva Kumar, Nirav Pandya, Rajesh Kakkar, Tenzin Zompa, Narinder Saini, Srinivas Samavedam, Ganshyam Jagathkar, Suhas Nirkhiwale, G.S. Gehlot, Shefali Bhattacharya, Sanjeev Sood, Suman Singh, Sanjeev Singh, Subhash Kumar Todi, Mahuya Bhattacharyya, Arpita Bhakta, Susmita Basu, Anuradha Agarwal, Manoj Agarwal, Mohit Kharbanda, Sankar Sengupta, Anirban Karmakar, Debkishore Gupta, Ajoy Krishna Sarkar, Rimita Dey, Chandramouli Bhattacharya, Mammen Chandy, V.R. Ramanan, Aseem Mahajan, Manas Roy, Sanjay Bhattacharya, Saswati Sinha, Indranil Roy, Umesh Gupta, Sujoy Mukherjee, Mrinmoy Bej, Purnima Mukherjee, Sumana Baidya, Afzal Azim, Asmita Sagar Sakle, Jehangir Soli Sorabjee, Mrunalini Subhash Potdar, Vaibhavi R. Subhedar, F.E. Udwadia, Hena Francis, Arpita Dwivedy, Sheena Binu, Suvin Shetty, Pravin Kumar Nair, Devendra K. Khanna, Felcy Chacko, Seelas Blessymole, Preeti Rajeev Mehta, Tanu Singhal, Sweta Shah, Vatsal Kothari, Reshma Naik, Mayur Harshadrai Patel, Deepesh Gokulchand Aggarwal, Burhanuddin Qutbuddin Jawadwala, Niketa Kaul Pawar, Shoeb Nizamuddin Kardekar, Abizer Nuruddin Manked, S.N. Myatra, J.V. Divatia, R. Kelkar, S.K. Biswas, V. Raut, S. Sampat, Alka Thool, Anil Karlekar, Sumi Nandwani, Sudhir Gupta, Sanjay Singhal, Madhu Gupta, Purva Mathur, Subodh Kumar, Kavita Sandhu, Arnab Dasgupta, Abhijeet Raha, Padmalatha Raman, Ashoo Wadhera, Binesh Badyal, Sarika Juneja, Bikas Mishra, Sunil Sharma, Megha Mehrotra, Jayant Shelgaonkar, Vikram Padbidri, Rohini Dhawale, Sheena Mary Sibin, Dileep Mane, Hanamant Kashinath Sale, Mohammad Mukhit Abdul Gaffar Kazi, Supriya Chabukswar, Anju Mathew, Dipti Gaikwad, Amol Harshe, Gita Nadimpalli, Sunil Bhamare, Soniya Thorat, Omnarayan Sarda, Pattabhiramarao Nadimpalli, Angelina Mendonca, Sujata Malik, Asmita Kamble, Nilakshi Kumari, Sohini Arora, Nita Munshi, Deepa Ganesh Divekar, Maithili Satish Kavathekar, Anuja Kedar Kulkarni, Madhupriya Vijay Suryawanshi, Madhavi Latha Bommala, Anil Bilolikar, Kashmira Limaye Joshi, Charulata Pamnani, Harvinder Wasan, Sonali Khamkar, Leena Steephen, Arjun Rajalakshmi, Anzar Thair, Aisha Mubarak, Swathy Sathish, Suresh Kumar, H. Sunil, Sujith Sujith, null Dinesh, Nagamani Sen, Nitin Shinde, Masoud Alebouyeh, Somayeh Jahani-Sherafat, Mohammad Reza Zali, Mohammad Reza Sarbazi, Nahid Mansouri, Elahe Tajeddin, Maryam Razaghi, Simasadat Seyedjavadi, Marjan Rashidan, Mansoor Masjedi, Behzad Maghsudi, Golnar Sabetian, Anahita Sanaei, Atefeh Yousefipour, Abdullah Mufareh Assiri, Elaine Mari Furukawa-Cinquini, Areej Dhafer Alshehri, Alysia Faye Giani, Nadia Lynette Demaisip, Elizabeth Laungayan Cortez, Analen Fabros Cabato, Jerlie Mae Gonzales Celiz, Ibrahim A.M. Al-Zaydani Asiri, Yassir Khidir Mohammed, Mohammed Abdullah Al Raey, Ali Omer Abdul Aziz, Saeed Ali Al Darani, Misbah Rehman Aziz, Roaa Hasan Basri, Duaa Khalil Al-Awadi, Syed Zahid Bukhari, Rosita Gasmin Aromin, Evangelina Balon Ubalde, Apsia Musa Molano, Hessa Abdullah Al Enizy, Celia Flores Baldonado, Fatima Mohammad Al Adwani, Arlu Marie Casuyon Pahilanga, Avigail M. Tan, Sonia Joseph, Deepa Sasidharan Nair, Nabeela Abdullah Al-Abdullah, Grace Sindayen, Annalyn Amor Malificio, Diaa Abdullah Mohammed, Hanan Mesfer Al Ghamdi, Ameurfina Curioso Silo, Marianina Brenda V. Valisto, Nektarios Foteinakis, Sameeh Salem Ghazal, Mercy V. Joseph, Ahmed Hakawi, Antigona Hasani, Ismet Jusufi, Gazmend Spahija, Nehat Baftiu, Agreta Gecaj-Gashi, Nasser Yehia Aly, Mohammad El-Dossoky Noweir, Suga Thomas Varghese, Ruby Jose Ramapurath, Amna Mostafa Mohamed, Sneha Mary George, Anu Kurian, Amani Fouad Sayed, Mona Foda Salama, Abeer Aly Omar, Flavie Maria Rebello, Dennis Malungcot Narciso, Nada Kara Zahreddine, Zeina Kanafani, Tala Kardas, Bassel Molaeb, Lamia Jurdi, Anwar Al Souheil, Mohamad Ftouni, Hasan Ayash, Tahsine Mahfouz, Tomas Kondratas, Dovile Grinkeviciute, Rimantas Kevalas, Greta Gailiene, Algirdas Dagys, Milena Petrovska, Katja Popovska, Zaneta Bogoevska-Miteva, Katerina Jankovska, Snezana Tufekcievska Guroska, Tanja Anguseva, Wan Nurbayah Wan Yusoff, Anis Shiham Zainal Abidin, Chin Seng Gan, Hasimah Zainol, Vineya Rai, Wong Kang Kwong, Mohd Shahnaz Hasan, Sasheela Sri La Sri Ponnampala, Jeyaganesh Veerakumaran, Ojan Assadian, Doan Mai Phuong, Nguyen Gia Binh, Kerinjeet Kaur, Joelene Lim, Lian-Huat Tan, Jegathesan Manikavasagam, Yuet-Meng Cheong, Hilario Coronado Magaña, Julio Cesar Mijangos Méndez, Federico Corona Jiménez, Sergio Esparza-Ahumada, Rayo Morfin-Otero, Eduardo Rodriguez-Noriega, Susana Gutierrez-Martinez, Hector Raul Perez-Gomez, Gerardo León-Garnica, Christian Mendoza-Mujica, Martha Cecilia Culebro Burguet, Jorge Horacio Portillo-Gallo, Fernando Aguilera Almazán, Gaspar Iglesias Miramontes, Maria del Rosario Vázquez Olivas, Lucio Alberto Aguilar Angel, Marisol Sanchez Vargas, Angel Orlando Flores Alvarado, Roberto Carlos Mares Morales, Luis Carlos Fernandez Alvarez, Hector Armando Rincon Leon, Karla Reyna Navarro Fuentes, Yuri Mariela Perez Hernandez, Gabriela Martinez Falcon, Angel Gonzalez Vargas, Marco A. Trujillo Juarez, Antonio Martinez Mulia, Paulina Alma Ulloa Camacho, Martha Y. Martinez-Marroquin, Marco Montell Garcia, Araceli Martinez Martinez, Elena Leon Sanchez, Guadalupe Gomez Flores, Marisela del Rocío González Martínez, Jesús Alfonso Galindo Olmeda, Georgina Olivarez, Enrique Barbachano Rodriguez, María Magdalena Gutierrez Castillo, María Guadalupe Villa González, Isaura Beatriz Sauceda Castañeda, Jaime Martínez Rodriguez, Otgon Baatar, Byambadorj Batkhuu, Kabiri Meryem, Barkat Amina, Rédouane Abouqal, Amine Ali Zeggwagh, Tarek Dendane, Khalid Abidi, Naoufel Madani, Syed Faisal Mahmood, Badaruddin A. Memon, Gul Hassan Bhutto, Nadeem Paul, Azra Parveen, Aun Raza, Amjad Mahboob, Summiya Nizamuddin, Faisal Sultan, Hammad Nazeer, Ashraf Ali Khan, Arifa Hafeez, Lydia Lara, Trudell Mapp, Balkys Alvarez, Magda Ivonne Rojas-Bonilla, Elizabeth Castano, Daisy A. De Moros, Roberto Espinoza Atarama, Maria Elena Calisto Pazos, Alfredo Paucar, Marlene Tasayco Ramos, Jenny Jurado, Dafne Moreno, Marãa E. Cruz Saldarriaga, Eliza Ramirez, Carlos Enrique La Hoz Vergara, Walter Enrique Prudencio Leon, Luis Isidro Castillo Bravo, Katya Fernanda Aibar Yaranga, Janet E. Pichilingue Chagray, Vanessa A. Marquez Mondalgo, Socorro Torres Zegarra, Nazario Silva Astete, Francisco Campos Guevara, Javier Soto Pastrana, Carlos F. Linares Calderon, Manuel Jesus Mayorga Espichan, Luis Martin Santivanez Monge, Maria V. Changano Rodriguez, Zoila Rosa Diaz Tavera, Fernando Martin Ramirez Wong, Selene Manga Chavez, Teodora Atencio-Espinoza, Victoria D. Villanueva, Maria Teresa Blanco-Abuy, Arnefelina S. Tamayo, Lailane D. Bergosa, Cristina Mari Jean P. Llames, Marilou F. Trajano, Suzette A. Bunsay, Jessica C. Amor, Regina Berba, Maria Carmen Sg Buenaflor, Ever Labro, Myrna T. Mendoza, Ofelia P. Javellana, Lilibeth G. Salvio, Rhoda Gay Rayco, Vanessa Bermudez, Andrzej Kubler, Marzena Zielinska, Magdalena Kosmider-Zurawska, Barbara Barteczko-Grajek, Ewa Szewczyk, Barbara Dragan, Malgorzata Anna Mikaszewska-Sokolewicz, Tomasz Lazowski, Elsie Cancel, Monica Sorina Licker, Liliana Alina Dragomirescu, Victor Dumitrascu, Dorel Sandesc, Ovidiu Bedreag, Marius Papurica, Delia Muntean, Igor Kotkov, Vladimir Kretov, Vladimir Shalapuda, Alexander Molkov, Sergey Puzanov, Ivan Utkin, Alexander Tchekulaev, Valentina Tulupova, Ljubica Nikolic, Goran Ristic, Jelena Eremija, Jelena Kojovic, Dragana Lekic, Sladjana Vasiljevic, Anna Lesnakova, Alzbeta Marcekova, Katarina Furova, May Osman Gamar Elanbya, Malik Abdo Ali, Shobhana Kumari Kadankunnel, Suwara Somabutr, Rungratchanee Pimathai, Suthinee Wanitanukool, Montri Luxsuwong, Namphon Supa, Pornpheth Prasan, Visanu Thamlikitkul, Silom Jamulitrat, Nonglak Suwalak, Parichart Phainuphong, Bouziri Asma, Borgi Aida, Bel Hadj Sarra, Khaldi Ammar, Gunay Tuncer Ertem, Cemal Bulut, Cigdem Ataman Hatipoglu, Fatma Sebnem Erdinc, Ali Pekcan Demiroz, Menekse Ozcelik, Basak Ceyda Meco, Mehmet Oral, Necmettin Unal, Cigdem Yildirim Guclu, Tanıl Kendirli, Erdal İnce, Ergin Çiftçi, Ayhan Yaman, Çağlar Ödek, Adem Karbuz, Bilge Aldemir Kocabaş, Nilgün Altın, Salih Cesur, Begum Atasay, Omer Erdeve, Hasan Akduman, Dilek Kahvecioglu, Ufuk Cakir, Duran Yildiz, Atila Kilic, Saadet Arsan, Dilek Arman, Serhat Unal, Yasemin Gelebek, Humeyra Zengin, Suha Sen, Hatice Cabadak, Ayse Erbay, Ata Nevzat Yalcin, Ozge Turhan, Melike Cengiz, Oguz Dursun, Perihan Gunasan, Sehnaz Kaya, Atilla Ramazanoglu, Cemal Ustun, Aliye Yasayacak, Hayrettin Akdeniz, Fatma Sirmatel, Ali Metin Otkun, Suzan Sacar, Alper Sener, Huseyn Turgut, Hulya Sungurtekin, Dogaç Ugurcan, Ceyda Necan, Cansu Yilmaz, Davut Ozdemir, Mehmet Faruk Geyik, Nevin Ince, Ayse Danis, Selvi Yener Erdogan, Nurettin Erben, Gaye Usluer, Ilhan Ozgunes, Cengiz Uzun, Oral Oncul, Levent Gorenek, Hakan Erdem, Orhan Baylan, Asu Ozgultekin, Asuman Inan, Sibel Bolukcu, Gunes Senol, Halil Ozdemir, Zeynel Gokmen, Sonay Incesoy Ozdemir, Ali Kaya, Gulden Ersoz, Necdet Kuyucu, Sevim Karacorlu, Zeynep Kaya, Ertugrul Guclu, Gulsume Kaya, Oguz Karabay, Saban Esen, Canan Aygun, Fatma Ulger, Ahmet Dilek, Hava Yilmaz, Mustafa Sunbul, Aynur Engin, Mehmet Bakir, Nazif Elaldi, Iftihar Koksal, Dincer Yildizdas, Ozden Ozgur Horoz, Ayşe Willke, Meliha Meriç Koç, Emel Azak, Naheed Elahi, Philip Annamma, Ashraf El Houfi, Maria Catalina Pirez Garcia, Hector Vidal, Fernando Perez, Gabriel D. Empaire, Yvis Ruiz, Dulce Hernandez, Dayana Aponte, Evelyn Salinas, Claudia Diaz, María Eugenia Guzmán Siritt, Zenaida Durán Gil De Añez, Luis Montes Bravo, Nelva Orozco, Eugenia Mejías, Nguyen Viet Hung, Nguyen Quoc Anh, Ngo Quy Chau, Truong Anh Thu, Le Thi Diem Tuyet, Dang Thi Van Trang, Vo Thi Hong Thoa, Nguyen Phuc Tien, Le Thi Anh Thu, Phan Thi Hang, Tran Thi My Hanh, Tran Thi Thuy Hang, Dinh Pham Phuong Anh, Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, KILIÇ, ATİLA, and MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA
Subjects: Imipenem, medicine.medical_specialty, Pediatrics, Low income countries, Asia, Epidemiology, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Health care-associated infection, Antibiotic resistance, Catheter-associated urinary tract infection, Ceftazidime, Network, Bloodstream infection, Developing countries, Nosocomial infection, Intensive care, medicine, Ventilator-associated pneumonia, Humans, Hospital infection, Prospective Studies, Urinary tract infection, Cross Infection, Infection Control, biology, business.industry, Health Policy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, medicine.disease, Nosocomial infection control, biology.organism_classification, Device-associated infection, United States, Europe, Pneumonia, Intensive Care Units, Infectious Diseases, Latin America, Amikacin, Emergency medicine, Africa, Limited resources countries, Central line-associated bloodstream infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S, business, medicine.drug
Abstract: Maghsoudi, Behzad/0000-0002-1279-8799; Kritsotakis, Evangelos/0000-0002-9526-3852; Yalcin, Ata Nevzat/0000-0002-7243-7354; Mikaszewska-Sokolewicz, Malgorzata A/0000-0002-1148-7817; ALDEMIR KOCABAS, Bilge/0000-0002-6396-5243; Masjedi, Mohammad Reza/0000-0002-6871-382X; Masjedi, Mansoor/0000-0001-6175-9289; Gan, Chin Seng/0000-0002-6758-4798; Oncul, Oral/0000-0002-1681-1866; Sabetian, Golnar/0000-0001-8764-2150; YAMAN, Ayhan/0000-0002-5651-1286; Ozdemir, Halil/0000-0002-7318-1688; Leon, Hector Armando Rincon/0000-0003-0715-200X; Delia, Muntean/0000-0001-9100-4530; Atasay, Fatma Begum/0000-0002-9114-5293; Zand, Farid/0000-0003-3489-3372; Kuchenbecker, Ricardo/0000-0002-4707-3683; Medeiros, Eduardo A/0000-0002-6205-259X; ROMERO LOPEZ-ALBERCA, CRISTINA/0000-0001-5856-8668; Salomao, Reinaldo/0000-0003-1149-4598; ozdemir, sonay incesoy/0000-0003-2863-901X; Meco, Basak Ceyda/0000-0003-2951-9634; Horoz, Ozden Ozgur/0000-0001-7590-650X; Horhat, Florin George/0000-0001-6133-0204; Kazi, Mohammad Mukhit/0000-0003-3824-5540; Ciftci, Ergin/0000-0002-4955-160X; Abouqal, Redouane/0000-0002-6117-4341; Leblebicioglu, Hakan/0000-0002-6033-8543; Garcell, Humberto Guanche/0000-0001-7279-0062; Kendirli, Tanil/0000-0001-9458-2803; de Souza, Maria Cecilia B V/0000-0003-0318-3087; Sanaei Dashti, Anahita/0000-0002-2827-3575; UNAL, SERHAT/0000-0003-1184-4711; alvarez Moreno, carlos Arturo/0000-0001-5419-4494; Barahona G., Nayide/0000-0003-3559-6900; Rodriguez Ferrer, Marena Luz/0000-0002-8053-8454; Karabay, Oguz/0000-0003-0502-432X; Kaya, Sehnaz/0000-0003-0002-1517; ERDEVE, OMER/0000-0002-3193-0812; Gonzalez Martinez, Marisela del Rocio/0000-0003-1474-736X; Gikas, Achilleas/0000-0002-8455-9631; Baylan, Orhan/0000-0002-6529-7824; Mitrev, Zan/0000-0001-7859-8821; yildizdas, dincer/0000-0003-0739-5108; Ngo, Quy Chau/0000-0002-6787-2757; Duszynska, Wieslawa/0000-0002-5880-4904; KAYA, ZEYNEP/0000-0002-8468-2103; Dragan, Barbara/0000-0003-3108-4211; Gupta, Umesh/0000-0001-7717-1404; Navarro Fuentes, Karla Reyna/0000-0002-6894-8872; zali, Mohammadreza/0000-0002-9027-4560; Morocho Tutillo, Diego Rolando/0000-0002-4974-7856; El Kholy, Amani/0000-0002-0645-7664; Kanj, Souha/0000-0001-6413-3396; Assiri, Abdullah/0000-0002-5605-2876; Unal, Necmettin/0000-0002-9440-7893; Jayatilleke, Kushlani/0000-0002-3931-6630; KARABAY, OGUZ/0000-0003-1514-1685 WOS: 000341307100001 PubMed: 25179325 We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 605,310 patients hospitalized in the INICC's ICUs for an aggregate of 3,338,396 days. Although device utilization in the INICC's ICUs was similar to that reported from ICUs in the U.S. in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals: the pooled rate of central line-associated bloodstream infection in the INICC's ICUs, 4.9 per 1,000 central line days, is nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.9 per 1,000 central line days reported from comparable U. S. ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher (16.8 vs 1.1 per 1,000 ventilator days) as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.5 vs 1.3 per 1,000 catheter days). Frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (42.8% vs 10%) and imipenem (42.4% vs 26.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (71.2% vs 28.8%) and imipenem (19.6% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC's ICUs compared with the ICUs of the CDC's NHSN. Copyright (C) 2014 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Published: 2014

14. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) national report on device-associated infection rates in 19 cities of Turkey, data summary for 2003-2012

Author: Leblebicioglu, Hakan, Erben, Nurettin, Rosenthal, Victor Daniel, Atasay, Begum, Erbay, Ayse, Unal, Serhat, Senol, Gunes, Willke, Ayse, Ozgultekin, Asu, Altin, Nilgun, Bakir, Mehmet, Oncul, Oral, Ersoz, Gulden, Ozdemir, Davut, Yalcin, Ata Nevzat, Ozdemir, Halil, Yildizdas, Dincer, Koksal, Iftihar, Aygun, Canan, Sirmatel, Fatma, Sener, Alper, Tuna, Nazan, Akan, OTzay Arikan, Turgut, Huseyin, Demiroz, A. Pekcan, Kendirli, Tanil, Alp, Emine, Uzun, Cengiz, Ulusoy, Sercan, Arman, Dilek, Ozgunes, Ilhan, Usluer, Gaye, Kilic, Atila, Arsan, Saadet, Cabadak, Hatice, Sen, Suha, Gelebek, Yasemin, Zengin, Humeyra, Topeli, Arzu, Alper, Yusuf, Meric, Meliha, Azak, Emel, Inan, Asuman, Turan, Guldem, Haznedaroglu, Tuncer, Gorenek, Levent, Acar, Ali, Cesur, Salih, Engin, Aynur, Kaya, Ali, Kuyucu, Necdet, Geyik, Mehmet Faruk, Aydin, Ozlem Cetinkaya, Erdogan, Nurse Selvi, Turhan, Ozge, Gunay, Nurgul, Gumus, Eylul, Dursun, Oguz, Esen, Saban, Ulger, Fatma, Dilek, Ahmet, Yilmaz, Hava, Sunbul, Mustafa, Gokmen, Zeynel, Ozdemir, Sonay Incesoy, Horoz, Ozden Ozgur, Yylmaz, Gurdal, Kaya, Selcuk, Ulusoy, Hulya, Kucukoduk, Sukru, Ustun, Cemal, Baysal, Abant Izzet, Otkun, Metin, Tulunay, Melek, Oral, Mehmet, Unal, Necmettin, Cengiz, Mustafa, Yilmaz, Leyla, Sacar, Suzan, Sungurtekin, Hulya, Ugurcan, Dogac, Yetkin, M. Arzu, Bulut, Cemal, Erdinc, F. Sebnem, Hatipoglu, Cigdem Ataman, Ince, Erdal, Ciftci, Ergin, Odek, Caglar, Yaman, Ayhan, Karbuz, Adem, Aldemir, Bilge, Kilic, Aysegul Ulu, Arda, Bilgin, Bacakoglu, Feza, Hizel, Kenan, [Leblebicioglu, Hakan -- Esen, Saban -- Ulger, Fatma -- Dilek, Ahmet -- Yilmaz, Hava -- Sunbul, Mustafa] Ondokuz Mayis Univ, Sch Med, Samsun, Turkey -- [Erben, Nurettin -- Ozgunes, Ilhan -- Usluer, Gaye] Eskisehir Osmangazi Univ, Eskisehir, Turkey -- [Rosenthal, Victor Daniel] Int Nosocomial Infect Control Consortium, Ave 4580,Floor 12,Apt D, RA-1195 Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina -- [Atasay, Begum -- Kilic, Atila -- Arsan, Saadet] Ankara Univ, Sch Med, Fac Paediat, Dept Newborn Med, TR-06100 Ankara, Turkey -- [Erbay, Ayse -- Cabadak, Hatice -- Sen, Suha] Turkiye Yuksek Ihtisas Educ & Res Hosp, Ankara, Turkey -- [Unal, Serhat -- Gelebek, Yasemin -- Zengin, Humeyra -- Topeli, Arzu -- Alper, Yusuf] Hacettepe Univ, Sch Med, Ankara, Turkey -- [Senol, Gunes] Suat Seren Chest Dis & Chest Surg Training Hosp, Izmir, Turkey -- [Willke, Ayse -- Meric, Meliha -- Azak, Emel] Kocaeli Univ, Fac Med, Kocaeli, Turkey -- [Ozgultekin, Asu -- Inan, Asuman -- Turan, Guldem] Haydarpasa Numune Training & Res Hosp, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Altin, Nilgun -- Cesur, Salih] Etlik Ihtisas Training & Educ Hosp, Ankara, Turkey -- [Bakir, Mehmet -- Engin, Aynur] Cumhuriyet Univ, Sch Med, Sivas, Turkey -- [Oncul, Oral -- Haznedaroglu, Tuncer -- Gorenek, Levent -- Acar, Ali] Gulhane Mil Med Acad, Haydarpasa Training Hosp, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Ersoz, Gulden -- Kaya, Ali -- Kuyucu, Necdet] Mersin Univ, Fac Med, Mersin, Turkey -- [Ozdemir, Davut -- Geyik, Mehmet Faruk -- Aydin, Ozlem Cetinkaya -- Erdogan, Nurse Selvi] Duzce Univ, Med Sch Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Duzce, Turkey -- [Yalcin, Ata Nevzat -- Turhan, Ozge -- Gunay, Nurgul -- Gumus, Eylul -- Dursun, Oguz] Akdeniz Univ, TR-07058 Antalya, Turkey -- [Ozdemir, Halil -- Gokmen, Zeynel -- Ozdemir, Sonay Incesoy] Konya Training & Res Hosp, Konya, Turkey -- [Yildizdas, Dincer -- Horoz, Ozden Ozgur] Cukurova Univ, Balcali Hosp, Adana, Turkey -- [Koksal, Iftihar -- Yylmaz, Gurdal -- Kaya, Selcuk -- Ulusoy, Hulya] Karadeniz Tech Univ, Sch Med, Trabzon, Turkey -- [Aygun, Canan -- Kucukoduk, Sukru] Ondokuz Mayis Univ, Sch Med, Neonatal Unit, Samsun, Turkey -- [Sirmatel, Fatma -- Ustun, Cemal -- Baysal, Abant Izzet] Univ Hosp, Infect Dis & Clin Microbiol, Bolu, Turkey -- [Sener, Alper -- Otkun, Metin] Onsekiz Mart Univ Canakkale, Canakkale, Turkey -- [Tuna, Nazan] Sakarya Univ, Fac Med, Sakarya, Turkey -- [Akan, OTzay Arikan -- Tulunay, Melek -- Oral, Mehmet -- Unal, Necmettin] Ankara Univ, Ibni Sina Hosp, Sch Med, TR-06100 Ankara, Turkey -- [Turgut, Huseyin -- Sacar, Suzan -- Sungurtekin, Hulya -- Ugurcan, Dogac] Pamukkale Univ, Denizli, Turkey -- [Demiroz, A. Pekcan -- Yetkin, M. Arzu -- Bulut, Cemal -- Erdinc, F. Sebnem -- Hatipoglu, Cigdem Ataman] Ankara Numune Training & Res Hosp, Ankara, Turkey -- [Kendirli, Tanil -- Ince, Erdal -- Ciftci, Ergin -- Odek, Caglar -- Yaman, Ayhan -- Karbuz, Adem -- Aldemir, Bilge] Ankara Univ, Sch Med, Dept Paediat Crit Care Med, TR-06100 Ankara, Turkey -- [Alp, Emine -- Kilic, Aysegul Ulu] Erciyes Univ, Fac Med, Kayseri, Turkey -- [Uzun, Cengiz] German Hosp, Istanbul, Turkey -- [Ulusoy, Sercan -- Arda, Bilgin -- Bacakoglu, Feza] Ege Univ, Fac Med, Izmir, Turkey -- [Arman, Dilek -- Hizel, Kenan] Gazi Univ, Sch Med, Ankara, Turkey -- [Cengiz, Mustafa -- Yilmaz, Leyla] Harran Univ, Fac Med, Sanliurfa, Turkey, Ciftci, Ergin -- 0000-0002-4955-160X, Leblebicioglu, Hakan -- 0000-0002-6033-8543, Horoz, Ozden Ozgur -- 0000-0001-7590-650X, Erben, Nurettin -- 0000-0003-0373-0132, Yalcin, Ata Nevzat -- 0000-0002-7243-7354, UNAL, SERHAT -- 0000-0003-1184-4711, MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA, Çukurova Üniversitesi, OMÜ, BAİBÜ, Tıp Fakültesi, Dahili Tıp Bilimleri Bölümü, Sırmatel, Fatma, and Ege Üniversitesi
Subjects: Male, Pediatrics, healthcare associated infection, Turkey, Antibiotic resistance, medicine.medical_treatment, health care facilities, manpower, and services, central venous catheter, Network, intensive care unit, preschool child, Turkey (republic), law.invention, Cohort Studies, Nosocomial infection, law, newborn, device infection, Prevalence, Infection control, Prospective Studies, Prospective cohort study, Child, intensive care, catheter infection, Cross Infection, Urinary tract infection, adult, Ventilator-associated pneumonia, Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated, General Medicine, cohort analysis, INICC, Intensive care unit, infection control, Device-associated infection, Infectious Diseases, female, Equipment and Supplies, Child, Preschool, disease surveillance, Central venous catheter, devices, Cohort study, prospective study, Microbiology (medical), medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Catheter-associated urinary tract infection, infection rate, Bloodstream infection, Article, critically ill patient, length of stay, Intensive care, medicine, Humans, Hospital infection, human, Healthcare-associated infection, urinary catheter, business.industry, Research, Infant, Newborn, Infant, International Nosocomial Infection Consortium, mechanical ventilator, medicine.disease, Nosocomial infection control, major clinical study, mortality, Catheter-Related Infections, Emergency medicine, ventilator associated pneumonia, Central line-associated bloodstream infections, business
Abstract: WOS: 000346433300001, PubMed ID: 25403704, Background: Device-associated healthcare-acquired infections (DA-HAI) pose a threat to patient safety, particularly in the intensive care unit (ICU). We report the results of the International Infection Control Consortium (INICC) study conducted in Turkey from August 2003 through October 2012. Methods: A DA-HAI surveillance study in 63 adult, paediatric ICUs and neonatal ICUs (NICUs) from 29 hospitals, in 19 cities using the methods and definitions of the U.S. NHSN and INICC methods. Results: We collected prospective data from 94,498 ICU patients for 647,316 bed days. Pooled DA-HAI rates for adult and paediatric ICUs were 11.1 central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) per 1000 central line (CL)-days, 21.4 ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAPs) per 1000 mechanical ventilator (MV)-days and 7.5 catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) per 1000 urinary catheter-days. Pooled DA-HAI rates for NICUs were 30 CLABSIs per 1000 CL-days, and 15.8 VAPs per 1000 MV-days. Extra length of stay (LOS) in adult and paediatric ICUs was 19.4 for CLABSI, 8.7 for VAP and 10.1 for CAUTI. Extra LOS in NICUs was 13.1 for patients with CLABSI and 16.2 for patients with VAP. Extra crude mortality was 12% for CLABSI, 19.4% for VAP and 10.5% for CAUTI in ICUs, and 15.4% for CLABSI and 10.5% for VAP in NICUs. Pooled device use (DU) ratios for adult and paediatric ICUs were 0.54 for MV, 0.65 for CL and 0.88 for UC, and 0.12 for MV, and 0.09 for CL in NICUs. The CLABSI rate was 8.5 per 1,000 CL days in the Medical Surgical ICUs included in this study, which is higher than the INICC report rate of 4.9, and more than eight times higher than the NHSN rate of 0.9. Similarly, the VAP and CAUTI rates were higher compared with U. S. NHSN (22.3 vs. 1.1 for VAP; 7.9 vs. 1.2 for CAUTI) and with the INICC report (22.3 vs. 16.5 in VAP; 7.9 vs. 5.3 in CAUTI). Conclusions: DA-HAI rates and DU ratios in our ICUs were higher than those reported in the INICC global report and in the US NHSN report., Foundation to Fight against Nosocomial Infections, The funding for the activities carried out at INICC head quarters were provided by the corresponding author, Victor D. Rosenthal, and Foundation to Fight against Nosocomial Infections.
Published: 2014

15. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae pneumonia in an immunocompetent patient

Author: Meliha Meric, Sema Keceli Ozcan, and MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA
Subjects: Microbiology (medical), Adult, Male, Erysipeloid, Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae, Microbiology, Erysipelothrix Infections, medicine, Pneumonia, Bacterial, Animals, Humans, Cutaneous infections, medicine.diagnostic_test, biology, business.industry, Respiratory disease, Sputum, General Medicine, medicine.disease, biology.organism_classification, respiratory tract diseases, Pneumonia, Bronchoalveolar lavage, Lung disease, Immunology, Erysipelothrix, medicine.symptom, business, Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
Abstract: Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is a Gram-positive bacillus that causes infections primarily in animals. In humans, this bacterium usually causes localized cutaneous infections called erysipeloid. Here we report a case of pneumonia with isolation of E. rhusiopathiae from bronchoalveolar lavage and sputum. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a pneumonia case caused by E. rhusiopathiae confirmed by culture.
Published: 2011

16. Tularaemia outbreaks in Sakarya, Turkey: case-control and environmental studies

Author: Meric, M., Sayan, M., Devrim Dundar, Willke, A., and MERİÇ KOÇ, MELİHA
Subjects: Adult, Male, Adolescent, Turkey, Infant, Pharyngeal Diseases, Middle Aged, Disease Outbreaks, Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases, Young Adult, Water Supply, Case-Control Studies, Child, Preschool, Humans, Female, Child, Francisella tularensis, Water Microbiology, Tularemia, Aged
Abstract: Tularaemia is an important zoonotic disease that leads to outbreaks. This study aimed to compare the epidemiological characteristics of two tularaemia outbreaks that occurred in the Sakarya region of Turkey, analyse the risk factors for the development of outbreaks and identify Francisella (F.) tularensis in the water samples.Two tularaemia outbreaks occurred in the Kocadongel village in 2005 and 2006. A field investigation and a case-control study with 47 cases and 47 healthy households were performed during the second outbreak. Clinical samples from the patients and filtrated water samples were analysed for F. tularensis via real-time polymerase chain reaction.From the two outbreaks, a total of 58 patients were diagnosed with oropharyngeal tularaemia based on their clinical and serological results. Both outbreaks occurred between the months of January and April, and the number of patients peaked in February. Logistic regression analysis revealed that the consumption of natural spring water was the only significant risk factor for tularaemia infection (odds ratio 3.5, confidence interval 1.23-10.07). F. tularensis was detected in eight clinical samples and in the filtrated natural spring water.This study is the first report of tularaemia from this region. The results show that both tularaemia outbreaks were related to the consumption of untreated natural spring water. To prevent waterborne tularaemia, community water supplies should be treated and checked periodically.
Published: 2010

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