The gay bowel syndrome: a mon problem of homosexual patients the emergency partment - PubMed

Contents:

• COLLECTIVE REVIEWTHE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
• PROTOZOA AND HELMTHS: “THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME”
• THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

COLLECTIVE REVIEWTHE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

Author lks open overlay panel(80)80310-6Get rights and ntentSexually transmted bowel and rectal diseas are mon gay men and are ed by a wi variety of fect agents. Each of the enti implited the gay bowel syndrome is nsired separately and epimlogic nsiratns rponsible for the appearance of such a syndrome are examed.

PROTOZOA AND HELMTHS: “THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME”

Retentn of ure anogenal herpetic fectnLancet(1978)KazalHL et bowel syndrome: clipathologil rrelatns 260 sAnn Cl Lab Sci(1976)SohnN et gay bowel syndrome: a review of lonic and rectal ndns 200 male homosexualsAm J Gastroenterol(1977)KseyAC et Behavr the Human Male(1948)JonS The sis story: alimentary aliensThe Gay Advote(1979)DanielCW et rat of enteric protozoal fectns selected homosexual men attendg a venereal disease clicSexually Transmted Diseas(1978)DsLM et epimlogic study of sexually transmted disease on a universy mpAm J Epiml(1974)SzmunsW et the role of sexual behavr the spread of hepatis B fectnsAnn Intern Med(1975)HenrsonRH Improvg sexually transmted disease health servic for gays: a natnal perspectiveSexually Transmted Diseas(1977)SleisengerMH et al. Venereal transmissn of enteric pathogens male homosexualsJAMA(1977)ByersPA et al. Amebiasis, an creasg problem among homosexuals New York CyJAMA(1977)KeanBH et al.

ReferencMarkell EK, Havens RF, Kursubo RA, et al: Inttal protozoa homosexual men of the San Francis Bay Area: Prevalence and rrelat of fectn. Petri WA, Ravd JI: Treatment of homosexual men fected wh Entamoeba histolyti.

THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

Allason-Jon E, Ml A, Sargent P, et al: Entamoeba histolyti as a mensal ttal parase homosexual men. Forthal DN, Gut SS: Isospora belli enteris three homosexual men.

Protozoa and Helmths: “The Gay Bowel Syndrome”. 5% of 200 homosexual men but only 16% of 100 heterosexual men were found to be fected wh ttal paras. Entamoeba histolyti was isolated om 27% of the homosexual and 1% of the heterosexual men, and Giardia lamblia was isolated om 13% of the homosexual and 3% of the heterosexual men.

Symptoms were much more mon both fected and unfected homosexuals than heterosexuals. Among the homosexual men recent foreign travel, livg a homosexual hoehold and promiscuy were not rrelated wh ttal parasic fectn, but cleansg of the an before and sex was associated wh a signifintly lower prevalence of fectn. The fdgs suggt that the male homosexual muny may be an important rervoir of potentially pathogenic textFull text is available as a snned py of the origal prt versn.