Editorial Board

Journal of Infectious Diseases & Travel Medicine

Home JIDTM Editorial Board Selma Usluca

Share this profile

LinkedIn Twitter / X

✓ Link copied!

Selma Usluca

Selma Usluca

Associate Editor
Atılım University Faculty of Medicine Turkey Member since 2023

Biography

Selma Usluca is working at Atılım University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Microbiology, Turkey. She graduated from Blacksea University School of Medicine in 1994. She completed her Doctoral degree (PhD, 2009) from the University of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine Department of Parasitology, Izmir, Turkey. In 2020, she earned the academic degree of associated professor in medical parasitology. Between the year 2009 and 2011, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the same department. Between the year 2011 and 2023, she worked as a parasitologist in the Refik Saydam Hygiene Institute / General Directorate of Public Health, National Parasitology Reference Laboratory, Ankara, Turkey. Her career experience includes Laboratory Quality and Accreditation, laboratory diagnosis for parasitic diseases (molecular diagnosis of parasitology, clinical parasitology and serology), teaching and training and research, outbreak investigation, national malaria surveillance. She is a member of many professional associations and national committees in Turkey and serves on the journal editorial board. Turkish Journal of Hygiene and Experimental Biology, Additional Member of Scientific Advisory Board (2014-2015), Turkish Microbiology Society Young Parasitology Working Group Member: (2016-2018), Member of the Executive Board of the Turkish Microbiology Society Parasitology Working Group: (2018-Present), Membership of the Ministry of Health Leishmaniasis Working Group: (2021-Present), Turkish Microbiology Society Parasitology Working Group Executive Committee Secretariat: Member of Turkish Parasitology Association (2002-Present), Member of European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (2015-Present), Member of Turkish Microbiology Society (2016-Present), Editorial Member of International Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapy (2023).

Research Interests

Medical Parasitology Molecular Parasitology Blood and Tissue Parasites Gastrointestinal Parasites Malaria Leishmaniasis Toxoplasmosis Diagnostic Methods of Parasites Laboratory Quality and Accreditation

Other Editorial Board Members

Submit Manuscript