background port site complications following elective surgery are rare and port site infections remain the most common short long term complications. objectives the study was conducted to analyze port site complications occurring in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis. patients and methods ninety patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy were r...

background skin infectious diseases are common worldwide. epidemiologic studies lead to better understanding of disease profiles and health service organization. conclusions in our study fungal and viral infections were the most common infectious diseases. we think epidemiological studies to determine the burden of skin infections are useful for proper health care planning. results mean age of ...

background: fusobacterium necrophorum as a non-spore-forming gram-negative anaerobic bacillus is an important human and animal pathogen. it may cause severe systemic infections (lemierre's syndrome) and some other infections. the aim of this study was to subtype fusobacterium necrophorum by using pcr methods. materials and methods: twenty five strains of fusobacterium necrophorum subspecies fun...

Abstract Because of widespread use probiotics, their safety must be guaranteed. We assessed Saccharomyces boulardii probiotic yeast from medical records for patients who had fungemia or other clinical culture findings. evaluated all sp. findings at 5 university hospitals in Finland during 2009–2018. found 46 fungemia; least 20 (43%) were using S. probiotic. Compared with a control group that ba...

Toxoplasma gondii is the causative agent of toxoplasmosis in human and animals. In a mouse model, T. gondii strains can be divided into three groups, including the virulent, intermediately virulent, and nonvirulent. The clonal type I, II, and III T. gondii strains belong to these three groups, respectively. To better understand the basis of virulence phenotypes, we investigated mouse gene expre...