JOURNAL of MICROBIOLOGY and INFECTIOUS DISEASES

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JOURNAL of MICROBIOLOGY

and INFECTIOUS DISEASES

ISSN 2146-3158

Volume 1 Issue 2 September 2011

Publishes four times a year

Association of Health Investigations

Abbreviation for citation:

J Microbiol Infect Dis

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JOURNAL of MICROBIOLOGY and INFECTIOUS DISEASES

ISSN 2146-3158

Editor-in-Chief

Salih Hoşoğlu, Türkiye

Associate Editor

Oğuz Karabay, Türkiye

Bilimsel Kurul /

Editorial Board

Metin Aytekin, USA

Recep Öztürk, Türkiye

Hakan Leblebicioğlu, Türkiye

M. Faruk Geyik, Türkiye

Reşat Özaras, Türkiye

Contact Person

Prof. Dr. Saim Dayan, Dicle University, Medical Faculty, Department of Microbiology

and Infectious Diseases Diyarbakır- Türkiye

Tel / Phone:

+90-412 248 80 01 / 4737

Faks / Fax:

+90-412- 248 84 40

Email:

journalmid@gmail.com

Web Address:

www.jcmid.org

Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (JMID) is a peer-reviewed medical journal and published four times a year (March, June, September and December).

Subscription fee: 80 TL (40 $)

Address for requests: Prof.Dr. Salih Hoşoğlu, Dicle University, Medical Faculty, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, 21280 Diyarbakır - Türkiye

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JMID - Instructions for Authors

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

All manuscripts should be prepared as appropriate for Uniform Requirements for manuscripts submit-ted to Biomedical Journals (http://www.icmje.org/). All submitted manuscripts must be contributed solely to Journal of Microbiology and Infectious Dis-eases not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. A copyright transfer statement must be signed by all authors and accompany each submis-sion.

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Title page: The title page should not contain abbre-viations. The title page should contain the full names and affiliations of all authors and complete contact information (including address, phone number, fax number, email) of the corresponding author.

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Journals

- Anderson NJ, Abbott GD, Mogridge N, Allan RB, Maling TM, Wells E. Vesicoureteric reflux in the new-born: relationship to fetal renal pelvic diameter. Pe-diatr Nephrol 1997;11:610-616.

- Dunne FP, Elliot P, Gammage MD, et al. Cardio-vascular function and glucocorticoid replacement in patients with hypopituitarism. Clin Endocrinol 1995;43:629-632.

Books

Hatch DJ, Sumner E, Hellman J. The Surgical Neo-nate: Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 3rd edn. Lon-don: Edward Arnold, 1994:120-5.

Chapter in a book: Motoyama EK. Respiratory physiology in infants and children. In: Motoyama EK, Davis PJ, eds. Smith’s Anesthesia for Infants and Children, 5th edn. St. Louis: C.V. Mosby, 1990:11-76. A paper published online but not (yet) in print can be cited using the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Tables and illustrations: Tables must be self-ex-planatory and must not duplicate information in the text. Each table must have a title and should be numbered in order of appearance in the text. Any symbol and abbreviations used in the table body must be defined in a footnote to the table. All fig-ures and pictfig-ures should be sent in JPG (or JPEG) file format as separate files.

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Front page, Abstract, Main text, References and Ta-bles should be incorporated in one document file and submitted as a single file. Pictures and figures should be submitted as separate files for each pic-ture and figure.

All manuscripts should be submitted by online sub-mission at using login Author Pathway / Online Sub-mission at www.jcmid.org

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CONTENTS ORIGINAL ARTICLE

• A review of clinically suspected sepsis and men-ingitis in infants under 90 days old in a tertiary care center in Saudi Arabia

Elham Essa Bukhari, Abdulkarim Abdullah Alrabiaah 47

• Attitudes and behaviors of Family Physicians regarding use of antibiotics

Oğuz Karabay, Davut Özdemir, Ertuğrul Güçlü, Mus-tafa Yıldırım, Nevin İnce, Abdulkadir Küçükbayrak, Selma Çakır, Mustafa Gülenç, Mehmet İnce, Keziban Demirli ... 53 • Comparison of lamivudine - α-interferon com-bination and α-interferon alone treatments in adult patients with naive HBeAg negative hepa-titis B

Mustafa Kemal Çelen, Celal Ayaz, Habibe Çolak, Re-cep Tekin ... 58 • Frequency of Rotavirus and Enteric Adenovi-ruses among children with acute gastroenteritis in a district hospital

Türkan Toka Özer, Erkan Yula, Özcan Deveci, Alicem Tekin, Süleyman Durmaz, Mustafa Gülenç, Keramet-tin Yanık ... 64 • Diagnosis of pertussis in vaccinated children of Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan by Cough Plate Meth-od

Amjad Ali Mughal, Yasmeen Faiz Kazi, Syed Habib Bukhari ... 68

CASE REPORT

• Pediatric Tularemia presenting with a neck mass

Serhan Küpeli, Recep Tekin ... 73 • Successful salvage treatment of Lecythophora mutabilis keratitis with topical voriconazole Orçun Pehlivan, Şebnem Çalı, Bora Yüksel ... 75 • A case with chronic hepatitis B and anterior uveitis - Is there any connection?

Şükran Köse, Süheyla Serin Senger, Gülsün Çavdar, Gürsel Ersan ... 78 • Cytomegalovirus pneumonia in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

Derya Özturk Engin, Funda Türkmen, Belma Akbaba Bağcı, Ilknur Erdem, Asuman Inan, Seyfi Özyürek ... 80

• A case of Tinea incognito diagnosed coinciden-tally

Dilek Satana, Yıldız Yeğenoğlu, Meltem Uzun, Zayre Erturan, Nezahat Gürler, Güzin Özarmağan ... 84