Şafak Ermertcan

TL;DR: It is indicated that knowledge regarding antibiotics cannot be evaluated alone since it did not always correlate with behaviour and national education programmes about the dangers of irrational antibiotic use and restriction of antibiotics without prescriptions should be the priority.

TL;DR: It is concluded that priority should be given to knowledge-based behaviour education programmes for the more highly educated community; there must also be restriction on the sale of antibiotics without prescription.

TL;DR: Emergence of ciprofloxacin resistance was more common and developed more rapidly than resistance to levofloxacins in both MRSA and MSSA strains.

TL;DR: The feasibility of using nucleic acid probes directly from positive MB/BacT broth to identify mycobacteria was determined and the sensitivity and specificity of AccuProbe for the identification of M. tuberculosis and M. gordonae were determined.

TL;DR: The combination of meropenem and ciprofloxacin is more effective than either antibiotic alone in ICU infections due to P. aeruginosa and Acinetobacter strains isolated from intensive care unit (ICU) infections.