Reseachers: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Buket Baddal, Dr. Ferdiye Taner

It is a working group that aims to investigate the mechanisms that play a role in the pathogenesis of bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic infections leading to the development of disease findings. In studies, virulence factors such as toxins produced by pathogenic bacteria, adhesion molecules, and tissue-destructive enzymes that cause invasion in host cells and tissues are investigated by molecular methods. In addition, it aims to determine the genetic markers that cause antimicrobial resistance, which is one of the important factors threatening human health today, and the spread of antibiotic resistance genes circulating in our society. With the developed molecular fingerprinting methods, it is aimed to investigate the clonal relationships and transmission routes between isolates in pathogens that cause epidemics and to determine the genes responsible for virulence in inpatients and infections encountered in the community.