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Infectious and Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Implications for Dental Public Health *
Author(s) -
Silverman Sot
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of public health dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1752-7325
pISSN - 0022-4006
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-7325.1986.tb03086.x
Subject(s) - medicine , pneumocystis carinii , tuberculosis , public health , population , pneumonia , immunology , meningitis , disease , transmission (telecommunications) , intensive care medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , pediatrics , environmental health , pathology , pneumocystis jirovecii , electrical engineering , engineering
The Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has stimulated renewed attention toward infectious diseases and dental public health. Currently, AIDS is defined as individuals with Kaposi's sarcoma and/or pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and/or other life‐threatening opportunistic infections (e.g., specific forms of tuberculosis or meningitis, candidal esophagitis), and associated immu‐nosuppression that cannot be accounted for by another disease process and/or medications. As of January 1986, the AIDS epidemic has afflicted over 16,000 persons in the United States and has taken over 8,000 lives. All present indications point toward a much more extensive epidemic based on the lack of a vaccine and effective forms of treatment, the large number of carriers in the population, and variable modes of transmission.