OBJECTIVE To investigate the correlation between cytology and cervical biopsy in patients with squamous cell abnormality on cervical cytology. MATERIAL AND METHOD The cervical smears diagnosed in our clinic between 2005-2008 were reviewed retrospectively. Cases which exhibited squamous cell abnormality (n: 374) were evaluated. RESULTS The mean age was 45.15±10.78. In the cytopathological re...

INTRODUCTION To evaluate tuberculosis screening and efficacy of prophylaxis in contacts of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 7453 contacts of 1909 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis treated at four tuberculosis dispensaries located in Istanbul, between 2005 and 2009 were included in this retrospective screening-based study. Data on demographics, smear pos...

Nucleic acid sequences of Mycobacterium leprae were detected using gene probes hybridizing with targeting ribosomal RNA (16S rRNA), ribosomal DNA (16S rDNA) and gene amplification techniques (PCR) in skin lesion of paediatric leprosy patients and the effect of treatment on the by these methods. Eighty paediatric leprosy patients were included in the study. Most cases (79%) were between 9 and 16...

The overlap between the populations in sub-Saharan Africa infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis has led to an upsurge in tuberculosis cases over the last 10 years. The relative increase in the proportion of notified sputum-smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) cases is greater than that of sputum-smear-positive PTB cases. This is a consequence of ...