Infections are diseases that can occur in any part of our body, caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites, and some of them can be contagious. As a result of advances in diagnostic methods and the use of new antimicrobial drugs, many infectious diseases can be diagnosed and treated.
Infectious Diseases; It is a specialty that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi. Infectious diseases deal with diseases caused by microorganisms in all systems of the body.
1- Upper and lower respiratory tract infections (cold, flu, bird and swine flu, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis, pneumonia, etc.)
2- Gastrointestinal System Infections (acute and chronic diarrhea, antibiotic-associated diarrhea, parasitic infections, amoebic dysentery, cholera, food poisoning, abscesses and inflammations of the abdominal organs, hydatid cysts transmitted in animals)
3- Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (infections such as cellulitis, lymphangitis, myositis, necrotizing fasciitis, etc. caused by bacteria in the skin and lower layers of the skin, often with redness, pain, swelling, and sometimes water bubbles in the legs, animal bites, diabetes-related, feet developing wounds, pressure-bed sores)
4- Bone and Joint Infections (osteomyelitis (bone inflammation), septic arthritis (joint inflammation), hip and knee prosthesis infections)
5- Central Nervous System Infections (acute bacterial and viral meningitis, brain abscess, rabies, tetanus, botulism disease with paralysis in the muscles as a result of consumption of spoiled home canned food)
6- Gynecological and sexually transmitted infections, mastitis (infection with swelling and pain in the breasts after childbirth), pelvic inflammatory disease (infection of the uterus, tuba and ovaries), syphilis, gonorrhea, AIDS)
7- Diagnosis, follow-up and treatment of acute and chronic jaundice (viral hepatitis A, B, C, D)
8- Rash infections (chickenpox, shingles, measles, rubella, etc.)
9- Urinary Tract Infections
10- Non-Specific Infections (illnesses such as brucella, typhoid fever, sepsis, malaria, Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Lyme, Rickettsiosis, Tularemia transmitted by ticks and rodents, heart valve inflammations, extrapulmonary tuberculosis)
11- Hospital Infections (infections in the operation area after any surgical intervention, intensive care infections)