Hepatitis B in Homosexual Men: Prevalence of Infection and Factors Related to Transmission
| Autor: | I. L. Doto, Franklyn N. Judson, J. E. Maynard, Akbar A. Zaidi, David G. Ostrow, Kenneth R. Berquist, Marshall T. Schreeder, Stephen C. Hadler, T. Nylund, Sumner E. Thompson, P. Gardner, J. N. Moore, E. H. Braff, Gladys H. Reynolds |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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Male Risk Sexually transmitted disease Adolescent Sexual Behavior medicine.disease_cause Serology Antigen Humans Immunology and Allergy Medicine Therapeutic Irrigation Hepatitis B virus Hepatitis Hepatitis B Surface Antigens Mucous Membrane business.industry Transmission (medicine) Rectum Homosexuality Hepatitis B medicine.disease United States Infectious Diseases Immunology business Rectal douching |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Infectious Diseases. 146:7-15 |
| ISSN: | 1537-6613 0022-1899 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/infdis/146.1.7 |
| Popis: | Of 3,816 homosexual men examined in five sexually transmitted disease clinics in the United States, 6.1% had hepatitis B surface antigen, 52.4% had antibody to hepatitis B surface antigen, and 3.0% of the men who had no other indicator of infection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) had antibody to hepatitis B core antigen. The rate of seropositivity for HBV indicated by the presence of one or more of these serologic markers was 61.5%; seropositivity was significantly related to the duration of regular homosexual activity and to the number of nonsteady male sexual contacts in the four months before the patients were interviewed. Anal-genital intercourse, oral-anal intercourse, and rectal douching were significantly related to evidence of HBV infection, but oral-oral contact and oral-genital contact were not. Trauma to the rectal mucosa is a feature common to the practices that were significantly related to seropositivity for HBV. |
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