Data collection for the ID-IRI survey related to travel medicine and assessing the hospitalized infection patients returning from 11 Arabian peninsula countries is closed. Currently the database 1ncludes 180 cases and data analysis is about to start.

This survey will evaluate HIV stigma and discrimination among sealth care staff in Turkey. Please refer to atanemli@yahoo.com to join the survey.

This study will prospectively analyze ICU patients with candidemia. The details are coming soon…

Haydarpasa-4 study assessing the antibiotic resistance of M. tuberculosis isolates recovered from tuberculous meningitis cases from 14 countries was submitted to a jounal and the paper is sent to reviewers.

Multicenter/multinational Backbone 1 and 2 studies were finished. The paper was written for Backbone-2 and was submitted elsewhere. The manuscript of Backbone-1 is nearly finished.

ID-IRI cryptococcal meningitis study has just started and many centers around the world has joined us in that survey. Please refer to Dr. Derya Engin in joining the study. (dr.deryaengin@gmail.com)

Immunocompromized patient study group of ID-IRI is working on the project. The details are coming within 3 weeks.