Protozoa and Helmths: “The Gay Bowel Syndrome” | SprgerLk

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• 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. 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.

PROTOZOA AND HELMTHS: “THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME”

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.

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”.

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

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.

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