Ayper Somer

Pediatric Mycobacterium bovis Infection: Clinical Spectrum, BCG-Related Disease, Primary Immunodeficiency, and a Comprehensive Review of the Literature

Objectives: Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) infection in children is uncommon but may remain unrecognized because routine laboratory methods often fail to distinguish it from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In addition, Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG)-associated M. bovis infection may represent the first manifestation of an...

Dynamics of virological suppression and systemic immune-inflammatory response following antiretroviral therapy in pediatric HIV infection

Background Persistent systemic inflammation remains a hallmark of treated HIV infection and is not reliably resolved by virological suppression alone. The Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index (SII), a composite hematologic index [(neutrophil × platelet)/lymphocyte count], has emerged as a candidate inflammatory biomarker...

Influenza-associated neurological complications in pediatric patients: clinical characteristics, outcomes, and the neuroinfluenza severity score in the multicenter TURK-INF study

Children aged ≥5 years were more likely to present with acute encephalopathy compared with seizures after simple febrile seizures were excluded and the NeuroInfluenza Severity Score (NISS) was evaluated as an exploratory post hoc severity index for classifying neurological disease severity during hospitalization.

Pediatric invasive meningococcal disease in Türkiye during the post-pandemic period: increased reported cases and predominance of serogroup B and severity determined by a clinical form in a multicenter hospital-based cohort

Clinical characteristics and predictors of severe pertussis in hospitalized children after the COVID-19 period in Türkiye: a multicenter study

Severe pertussis predominantly affects young infants, and apnea, respiratory distress, and leukocytosis were identified as major predictors of severe disease and incomplete vaccination is associated with increased disease severity.

Pediatric brucellosis: predictors of hospitalization, complications, and relapse in a nationwide multicenter cohort