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Medical Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Experience From a Newly Established Medical School
No full textGONULLU, UGUR/0000-0002-4360-7297; Tulek, Necla/0000-0002-3952-4982[No Abstract Available]Science Citation Index Expande
Profiling Infectious Diseases in Turkey After the Influx of 3.5 Million Syrian Refugees
No full textErgonul, Onder/0000-0003-1935-9235; Tulek, Necla/0000-0002-3952-4982Background: Since 2011, the conflict in Syria has led to over five million refugees. Turkey hosts the highest number of Syrian refugees in the world. By February 2019 over 3.6 million people had fled to Turkey to seek safety. Only 6.1% of Syrian refugees live in temporary shelters. Owing to the disrupted healthcare services, many children coming from the conflict zones are less likely to have received vaccination. In temporary shelters immunization coverage is >95% and the refugee population is receptive to vaccination. Aims: The objective of this study was to review the infectious diseases situation among Syrian refugees in Turkey. Sources: We have reviewed the reports and studies provided by the governmental and non-governmental organizations and obtained more detailed data from the Ministry of Health in Turkey. Content: Between 2012 and 2016, 1 299 209 cases of respiratory tract infection and 158 058 episodes of diarrhoea with 59 bloody diarrhoeas were reported; 1354 hepatitis A cases and 108 active tuberculosis cases were detected and treated in the temporary shelters for Syrian refugees. Overall in Turkey, 7794 cutaneous leishmaniasis have been reported. Implications: Since the influx of Syrian refugees, there has been an increase in cases of leishmaniasis and measles. No significant increase was detected for tuberculosis, other vector-borne infections, and healthcare associated or sexually transmitted infections. The Syrian refugees can be considered as a vulnerable group in Turkey due to their living and working conditions. Based on available data and our detailed analysis, the numbers show a stable situation regarding infectious diseases. (C) 2019 European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.World Health Organization [001] Funding Source: Medlin
ROMATOİD ARTRİT (RA) VE SİTOKİNLER : İNTERLÖKİN-1 (IL-1), İNTERLÖKİN-6 (IL-6), TÜMÖR NEKROZİS FAKTÖR ALFA (TNF-a) VE İNTERFERON GAMA (IFN-y)
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Sand fly Fever with Skin Lesions: A Case Series from Turkey
No full textSand fly fever (SF) is an arthropod-borne viral disease, also known as “Phlebotomus fever”, ‘’mosquito fever’’, three-day fever or “Papatacci fever”. It is transmitted by Phlebotomus papatasi, starts with acute onset of high fever, and lasts for three days. We present first cases in a different district of Turkey with the clinical findings of fever, myalgia-arthralgia, headache, gastrointestinal symptoms such as diarrhoea and nausea-vomiting and skin lesions (in two of them). All the patients were treated symptomatically and discharged with complete cure. These cases are indicating that sand fly fever is more common than we thought. It should be considered in the differential diagnosis in patients presenting with fever, arthralgia-myalgia and skin lesions, especially it is important to be aware of this disease in travellers returning from endemic areas
Being close to far away
No full textIn 1948 my great-grandfather was imprisoned in a Russian forced labor camp known as the Gulag, an acronym for the title Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps and Colonies Surviving this life event pushed my great-grandfather beyond the limits of civil society, rationality, and empathy into a world that author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn called, an unassimilable spiritual earthquake which not every person can cope with. Like millions of others, my great grandfather took a journey into the Gulag country, a place beyond vision or understanding. In the fall of 2012, I too traveled to the Gulag country, in order to trace the footsteps of my great-grandfather. Being Close to Far Away explores a post-traumatic environment in Vorkuta, Russia, a former location of the Gulag, and the camp where my great-grandfather was imprisoned. The Gulag was shrouded in secrecy by the Soviet Government until the death of Stalin, and my great-grandfather disappeared behind this shroud for seven years (1948-1955). This thesis project is in part to reclaim those years; for him, for myself, and for my family. I photographed the prison sites extensively. I did so in order to explore the traces and scars of the Gulag
Medical Education During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Experience From a Newly Established Medical School
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