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Two Concurrent Enteric Disease Outbreaks Among Men Who Have Sex With Men, Minneapolis-St Paul Area

Author(s) -

Richard Danila,

Dana Eikmeier,

T. J. Robinson,

Allison La Pointe,

Aaron DeVries

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1093/cid/ciu478

Subject(s) - medicine , outbreak , enteric fever , men who have sex with men , gerontology , virology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , typhoid fever , syphilis

Between 1 November 2013 and 31 March 2014, concurrent shigellosis and cryptosporidiosis outbreaks occurred among men who have sex with men in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, 75% of whom were HIV-infected. Current HIV/AIDS strategy emphasizing treatment as prevention may effectively decrease HIV transmission, but raises concerns about other diseases if safer sex messages are de-emphasized.

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