Viruses Associated with Acute Conjunctivitis in Vanuatu
Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2023 Jan 16:tpmd220600. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.22-0600. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe first manifestation of a viral infection may be conjunctivitis. There are limited data on the etiology of viral conjunctivitis in Vanuatu, a country in the South Pacific Ocean. Patients presenting to one of two Vanuatu health centers with presumed infectious conjunctivitis were eligible if symptom onset was within 14 days of screening. Conjunctival and anterior nasal swabs were obtained and subjected to unbiased RNA deep sequencing (RNA-seq) to identify DNA and RNA viruses. For samples collected from May to November 202...
Source: Am J Trop Med Hyg - January 16, 2023 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Kasso Johnson Fasihah Taleo Kalbule Willie Edwin Amel Madopule Nanu Marie Alguet Jose Wass Prudence Rymill Anthony Solomon Kevin Ruder Cindi Chen Lina Zhong Armin Hinterwirth David Liu Thomas Abraham Gerami Seitzman Thomas Lietman Thuy Doan SCORPIO Study Source Type: research
Evaluation of the Epidemiological, Clinical and Radiological Features of Pneumonia Cases Caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Childhood
Mikrobiyol Bul. 2023 Jan;57(1):14-29. doi: 10.5578/mb.20239902.ABSTRACTThe current study aimed to investigate the clinical, laboratory and radiological findings of the pneumonia cases in children that were confirmed as M.pneumoniae by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing and to reveal the factors that can be decisive in the diagnosis. Seventy-seven children were included in this study. The median age of the patients was 31 months (1 month-17 years 4 months). The 63.6% of the patients were younger than five years of age, 53.2% were girls and 46.8% were boys. During the eight-year research period, the frequency of M.pneum...
Source: Mikrobiyoloji Bulteni - January 13, 2023 Category: Microbiology Authors: Seda Han çerli Demirbaş Halil Özdemir Şükriye Yılmaz G ül Arga Hatice K übra Konca Zeynep Ceren Karahan Suat Fitoz Ergin Çiftçi Source Type: research
