Travel Medicine
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13. Travel medicine for the primary care physician.
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14. A travelers' clinic in an academic setting.
The Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona has operated a travelers' clinic since 1983, staffed primarily by faculty and residents from the sections of preventive medicine, occupational medicine, and family medicine. We describe the clinic experience in providing preventive medical services to international travelers. Summer
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15. Controversies in measles immunization recommendations.
Controversy in medicine is inevitable, but it becomes problematic when the issue is a serious public health problem requiring a clear plan of action. In recent years measles has made a major resurgence in this country, with provisional figures showing 89 measles-related deaths in 1990. The Immunization Practices Advisory Committee of the US Public Health Ser
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16. Developing a health information infrastructure for Arizona.
Network connectivity is critical in Arizona, where travel distances are great, academic programs dispersed, and health care practitioners often geographically isolated. Accordingly, the University of Arizona (UA) applied for $50,000.00 in National Library of Medicine/National Science Foundation (NLM/NSF) Connections Program funding to promote statewide colla
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17. Risk behaviour and STD acquisition in genitourinary clinic attenders who have travelled.
OBJECTIVE--To investigate the travel history of clients presenting at a genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic in order to assess the contribution made by sexual partnerships abroad to STD transmission in the UK. SUBJECTS--386 old and new clients who attended during a 3-month period and who had travelled abroad in the 3 months preceding their visit. METHODS--Al
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18. A one-year survey of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from patients attending an east London genitourinary medicine clinic: antibiotic susceptibility patterns and patients' characteristics.
OBJECTIVES--To collect epidemiological data on gonococcal infection in an east London genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic; to perform antibiotic susceptibility testing on Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates and relate results to patient data; to assess the efficacy of current first-line antibiotic therapy for treating gonorrhoea. METHODS--Gonococcal isolates were
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19. HIV infection in patients attending clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in England and Wales 1988. A Collaborative Study by Consultants in Genitourinary Medicine and the Public Health Laboratory Service.
A national study of the prevalence of HIV antibody in homosexual and heterosexual patients attending sexually transmitted disease clinics in the years 1985-7 was continued in 1988. Among homosexual men in two clinics in south east England HIV antibody was less prevalent in 1988 (30 (7.1%) of 420) than in 1987 (81 (14.6%) of 556) but was more prevalent in 198