INTRODUCTION Anthrax in North America is astonishingly rare. Before 2001, the most recent fatal case of inhalation anthrax in America was in 1976, when a craftsman acquired the disease from imported yarn. Prior to that, a minor mill outbreak in the 1960s occurred. Few physicians had, or have, any experience in detecting or caring for [...]
Sample Characteristics The subsample for the analyses reported here (N=59) consisted of 15 African-American heterosexual men (25%), 12 African-American gay/bisexual men (20%), and 32 white gay/bisexual men (54%). The men ranged in age from 50 to 68 years (M=56.42 years, SD=5.27 years). Sixty-two percent has less than a college education, and 37% a college degree [...]
Based on our patient’s laboratory findings and culture reports, aseptic meningitis was diagnosed. However, his development of meningeal irritation during hospitalization, after his recovery and following a rechallenge of TMP/SMX, established that there might be a high probability that his disease process was due to TMP/SMX. When the protecting barriers of the brain, including the [...]
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