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Sexually Transmitted Intestinal Diseases

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Modern Concepts in Gastroenterology Volume 2

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Sexual transmission of enteric pathogens was first suggested by Most in 1968, when he described several cases of enteric infection occurring in homosexual men in New York City in a paper entitled “Manhattan: A tropic isle?”1 Subsequently, numerous studies have documented the increased prevalence of both enteric parasites and bacteria in homosexual men.2–7

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Rabeneck, L. (1989). Sexually Transmitted Intestinal Diseases. In: Shaffer, E., Thomson, A.B.R. (eds) Modern Concepts in Gastroenterology Volume 2. Topics in Gastroenterology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0781-5_15

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