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We present a 35-year-old female patient who was started on rifampicin (900 mg orally once daily) and trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) (160/800 mg orally twice daily) after being diagnosed with brucellosis. Following ...

Central nervous system infection caused by Human Herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) is well known in immunocompromised; however, data regarding immunocompetent patients is limited to case series. We describe a 29-year-old immunocompetent ...

The current treatment for chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection in Turkey is pegylated interferon (IFN) plus ribavirin combination. Patients who developed relapse following the first pegylated IFN plus ribavirin ...

Epstein-Barr virus-associated haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (EBV-HLH) is a life-threatening catastrophic and rarely seen complication of EBV infection especially in adults. While typical presentation of EBV infection ...

A 48-year-old female patient was referred to our clinic forsudden-onset right-sided waist pain that radiated down bothlegs. The pain, which was also present along her waist cur-vature, inhibited her ability to walk, sit, ...

Tuberculous endocarditis (TBE) is a rare clinical entity, usually encountered during the course of miliary tuberculosis. Brain abscess is a very rare complication of TBE. Here, we report a case of valvular TBE presenting ...

The only antiviral drug used today in Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is ribavirin; however, its efficacy is controversial due to the lack of randomized controlled trials. The studies examining the efficacy of ...

In this issue of Turk J Gastroenterol 2014, Şahin et al. (1) presented an informative study on the prevalence and etiologic distribution of hepatic granulomas (HGs) identified in patients who were biopsied in their ...

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