The Eastern Anatolian Plateau (EAP), approximately 2000 m above sea level, is located between the Pontides to north, Arabian Platform south, and Iranian east. It characterized by 6 km-thick Maastrichtian Quaternary volcano-sedimentary cover which unconformably overlies continental oceanic basement units. Overall, outcrops of pre-Maastrichtian are rare include both This led drastically different...

Objectives: The rates of vaccination with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which can prevent many cancers, rank the last place when compared to other childhood rates. purpose present study was evaluate knowledge levels mothers living in our region about HPV vaccine and their perspectives regarding having vaccine. Methods: conducted between 15 July August 2022 Department Obstetrics Gynecology...

Mutations in the GJB2 gene have been shown to be the major cause of autosomal recessively inherited, prelingual, non-syndromic hearing loss. 35delG was found to be the most frequent mutation among Caucasians. In this study, we performed haplotype analysis of two large families with autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (totally 33 affected, 37 unaffected) from Trabzon (a city from the ...

PURPOSE Streptococcus pneumoniae is a commensal bacterium that normally colonizes the human nasopharyngeal cavity. Once disseminated, it can cause several diseases, ranging from non-invasive infections such as acute otitis media and sinusitis through to invasive infections with higher mortality, including meningitis and septicaemia. Since the identification of the first S. pneumoniae strain wit...

The Druze are an aggregate of communities in the Levant and Near East living almost exclusively in the mountains of Syria, Lebanon and Israel whose ~1000 year old religion formally opposes mixed marriages and conversions. Despite increasing interest in genetics of the population structure of the Druze, their population history remains unknown. We investigated the genetic relationships between I...