introduction & objective:visceral leishmaniasis (kala azar), a systemic infectious and life threatening disease of childhood, can be easily diagnosed and treated provided that there is enough knowledge about it otherwise, 90 –95% of patients may die due to severe, acute complications such as bleeding and opportunist infections. following the incubation period and onset of clinical manifestation...

DURING MY preceptorship within my current clinical area, I was presented with the ward copy of the trust's policies folder. It included the policies and guidelines on infection control, which I read one after the other. However, I found it difficult to relate them to my own clinical practices as, until then, I had rarely nursed seriously infectious patients within the ward environment. This, th...

background & aim: the aim of the study was to define the epidemiological characteristics of most important infectious diseases in iran in recent decades. methods & materials: this was a situation trend analysis of infectious diseases (vector and water borne disease, and food borne diseases) in recent decades based on data availability. three significance levels were used for mann-kendall test (...

We describe a nosocomial outbreak of diarrheal disease caused by extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, focused on a pediatric ward in South Africa. The outbreak peaked between May 2012 and July 2012. Person-to-person transmission was the most likely mechanism of spread of the infection, expedited due to a breakdown in hand-washing a...

We reviewed the clinical manifestations and outcome of 20 cases of neurobrocellosis out of 1375 patients with brucellosis admitted to the infectious diseases ward of a tertiary hospital in Hamedan, Islamic Republic of Iran. Of the 20 cases, 12 had meningitis (acute and subacute), 4 had meningoencephalitis, 2 had myelopathy, 1 had polyradiculopathy and 1 had meningovascular complications manifes...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Data on infectious diseases like tuberculosis (TB) have been analyzed in the past without giving adequate attention to spatial variations. Earlier studies also attempted to display disease status of sub regions, usually census tracts, by categorizing them into quartiles, that helps the authorities to identify high- or low-risk areas. This approach is based mainly on bino...

Objective: It is suggested that vitamin D regulates the immune response in infectious and autoimmune diseases. In our study, we aimed to compare levels pediatric patients with severity of COVID-19 disease a healthy control group.
 
 Material Methods: Retrospectively, compared serum between 1 month 18 years age who were followed up diagnosis intensive care unit (PICU) ward Necip Fazıl ...