Seismotectonics of Malatya Fault, Eastern Turkey

Geometry of the Turkey-Arabia and Africa-Arabia plate boundaries in the latest Miocene to Mid-Pliocene: the role of the Malatya-Ovacık Fault Zone in eastern Turkey

Knowledge of Medical Faculty Students concerning Ebola in Malatya, Turkey.

The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge levels of Inonu University medical faculty students regarding Ebola. This descriptive, cross sectional study was conducted between November and December, 2014 at Inonu University Medical Faculty. After the researchers performed the literature review, a questionnaire comprising 39 questions was prepared, and the students were asked to fill...

Rubella seroprevalence in an unvaccinated pregnant population in Malatya, Turkey.

BACKGROUND Controlling congenital rubella by 2010 is one of the targets of the World Health Organization. Most European countries currently include rubella vaccine in their national immunization programmes, but not yet in Turkey. OBJECTIVES To define rubella seroprevalence in pregnancy in Malatya, Turkey. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional interview survey was conducted among pregnant women liv...

Population-based molecular epidemiological study of tuberculosis in Malatya, Turkey.

This investigation describes drug resistance patterns and genotyping data on a total of 145 Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains isolated between 2000 and 2004 in Malatya, Turkey. Drug susceptibility results indicated a total of 20% resistant and 4.8% of multidrug-resistant isolates. Spoligotyping resulted in 25 unique patterns and 120 strains in 19 clusters (2 to 33 strains per cluster). When th...

Iodine deficiency in pregnant women in eastern Turkey (Malatya Province): 7 years after the introduction of mandatory table salt iodization.

OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to evaluate the urinary I excretion of pregnant women in Malatya Province, eastern Turkey. DESIGN AND SETTING A cross-sectional study was performed on pregnant women in urban and rural settlements of Malatya Province. SUBJECTS Urinary I excretion was measured for 824 pregnant women who were randomly selected using a probability-proportional-to-size...