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Amebiasis: Title and subTitle BreakAn Increasing Problem Among Homosexuals in New York City FREE

Michael J. Schmerin, MD; Arthur Gelston, MD; Thomas C. Jones, MD
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JAMA. 1977;238(13):1386-1387. doi:10.1001/jama.1977.03280140064021
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During a five-year period at The New York Hospital, Entamoeba histolytica was identified in the stools of 20 men who had not traveled outside the New York area. All of these patients were found subsequently to be homosexual. During this same period amebiasis was diagnosed in 30 men who had traveled; only two were homosexual. Of ten patients with E histolytica infection seen during the first year of this study, none were homosexual whereas eight of 11 patients in the fifth year were homosexual, suggesting a gradual increase during this period of this disease in the homosexual community.

(JAMA 238:1386-1387, 1977)

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Elsdon-Dew R:  The epidemiology of amoebiasis . Adv Parasitol 6:1-62, 1968;.
Drusin LM, Genvert G, Topf-Olstein B:  Shigellosis: Another sexually transmitted disease . Br J Vener Dis 52:348-350, 1976;.
Most H:  Manhattan: "A tropic isle?" Am J Trop Med Hyg 17:333-354, 1968;.
Kean BH:  Venereal amebiasis . NY State J Med 76:930-931, 1976;.
Dritz SK, Bach AF:  Shigella enteritis venereally transmitted . N Engl J Med 291:1194, 1974;.
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