'Gay bowel syndrome': Relic or real (and returning) phenomenon?

Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 84-89

  Cooper, Farhad ^a   Barber, Tristan ^b  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bowel; gay; HIV; MSM; Shigella; syndrome

Indexed keywords

RECREATIONAL DRUG;

CHLAMYDIA; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONCURRENT INFECTION; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GAY BOWEL SYNDROME; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; GONORRHEA; HEPATITIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MIXED INFECTION; REVIEW; SEX; SHIGELLA; SHIGELLOSIS; SYPHILIS; TECHNOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WART VIRUS;

ANUS DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECTAL DISEASES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SYNDROME;

EID: 84891831350     PISSN: 09517375     EISSN: 14736527     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0000000000000032     Document Type: Review

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