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SEXUAL TRANSMISSN OF TYPHOID FEVER AMONGST US GAY MEN REPORTED
Typhoid fever was sexually transmted to seven gay men, some of whom were HIV-posive the Uned Stat summer 2000, acrdg to a report the July 1st edn of the journal Clil Infect Diseas.
All the men were gay and none reported foreign travel.
” They note that other gut fectns n be spread by oral-anal and oral-genal sex and that there were two earlier se reports of probable sexual transmissn of typhoid fever amongst gay men 1977, although vtigators did not ask specific qutns about the typ of sex the men were havg. The potential for transmissn by tradnal foodborne and waterborne rout was limed to nsumptn of drks at a bar equented by gay men, yet no rrier was intified among employe nor did other patrons bee ill. Prevalence of enteric pathogens homosexual men wh and whout acquired immunoficiency syndromeGastroenterol 1988 9498493.