In Turkey, the construction sector is responsible for the largest number of work-related fatalities among all industries. This study’s objective is to determine the characteristics of the fatalities in the construction sector in Kocaeli Province. The study was carried out retrospectively by investigating the records of occupational deaths between 1990 and 2001 in the Kocaeli District of Turkey....

In 7 different region which represent most used harbors, ports and fishing shelters in the Sea of Marmara and Black Sea in Turkey coasts. Ecological Quality Status was assesed by sampling soft-bottom macrozoobenthos from 22 stations in 2014.

Hemoglobin Beograd (B121 Glu-Val) is a rarely reported hemoglobin variant. It was first reported in Turkey in 1984. This report is a further observation of this variant in a 22-years old Turkish man.

GHISLAINE GEELEN,1,2 TOMI LAITINEN,3 JUHA HARTIKAINEN,4 ESKO LÄNSIMIES,3 KIM BERGSTRÖM,3 AND LEO NISKANEN4 Departments of 3Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine and 4Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital and University of Kuopio, Kuopio FIN-70211, Finland; and 1Laboratoire de Physiologie de l’Environnement, Faculté de Médecine Grange Blanche, Université Claude Bernard, and 2Hospices Civils de...

Background. Separate studies involving people who survived atomic bombs have shown that the risk for cancer remains high after 40 years, compared with the risk in the general population. An elevated risk may also remain in regions of Turkey near the Chernobyl disaster. Patients and Methods. A multidisciplinary study conducted in 2008, 22 years after the Chernobyl disaster, examined the thyroid ...

Two recommended quit methods in standard cessation programs involve either gradual reduction of smoking prior to complete abstinence ("cut down") or abrupt abstinence from cigarettes ("cold turkey"). This study examined the reported use, characteristics of users, and the impact of self-selected strategy choice on quitting success and relapse of adult smokers who reported quitting on their own. ...

The minimum Se requirement for male turkey poults is 0.3 μg Se/g--three times higher than requirements found in rodents--based on liver and gizzard glutathione peroxidase-4 (GPX4) and GPX1 activities. In addition, turkey liver GPX4 activity is 10-fold higher and GPX1 activity is 10-fold lower than in rats, and both GPX1 and GPX4 mRNA levels are dramatically down-regulated by Se deficiency. Curr...

Eight cases of diarrhoea, including two cases of haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS), were identified among 22 French tourists who travelled to Turkey in September 2011. A strain of Escherichia coli O104:H4 stx2-positive, eae-negative, hlyA-negative, aggR-positive, ESBL-negative was isolated from one HUS case. Molecular analyses show this strain to be genetically similar but not indistinguishable...

Susceptibility testing of multidrug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis to second line 1 drugs on blood agar 2 3 4 Dilek SATANA 1 , Ahmet Yilmaz COBAN 2* , Meltem UZUN 1 5 6 7 1 Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical School, Department of Microbiology and Clinical 8 Microbiology, Đstanbul, Turkey. 9 2* Ondokuz Mayis University, Medical School, Department of Microbiology and Clinical 10 Microbio...

The prevalence of MRSA in the turkey meat production chain in Germany was estimated within the national monitoring for zoonotic agents in 2010. In total 22/112 (19.6%) dust samples from turkey farms, 235/359 (65.5%) swabs from turkey carcasses after slaughter and 147/460 (32.0%) turkey meat samples at retail were tested positive for MRSA. The specific distributions of spa types, SCCmec types an...