Nitrite inhalants: history, epidemiology, and possible links to AIDS.

Nitrite inhalants: history, epidemiology, and possible links to AIDS.

Nitrite inhalants have been commonly abused substances in the United States. Nitrite inhalants and AIDS was a popular topic in the early 1980s, when the cause of AIDS was not known. With the discovery of HIV, concern about nitrite use in the USA waned. However, nitrite inhalant use is associated with behavioral relapse and HIV transmission among gay men, with decreased lymphocyte counts and nat...

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Nitrite Inhalants Use and HIV Infection among Men Who Have Sex with Men in China

OBJECTIVE This is the first study in China to examine the use of nitrite inhalants and its correlates among men who have sex with men (MSM) in Beijing, China. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2012. Structured interviews collected data on demographics, sexual and drug use behaviors, and the use of HIV services. Blood specimens were collected and tested for HIV and syphilis. ...

Nitrate reduction to nitrite, a possible source of nitrite for growth of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria.

Growth yields and other parameters characterizing the kinetics of growth of nitrite-oxidizing bacteria are presented. These parameters were measured during laboratory enrichments of soil samples with added nitrite. They were then used to reanalyze data for nitrite oxidizer growth in a previously reported field study (M. G. Volz, L. W. Belser, M. S. Ardakani, and A. D. McLaren, J. Environ. Qual....

AIDS Epidemiology

Thompson’s AIDS epidemic model, which is formulated in his article “AIDS: The Mismanagement of an Epidemic,” published in Great Britain, 1989, does not reflect female infective population that has been growing. While the majority of AIDS patients were assumed to be male homosexuals, Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the percentage of infected females through heterosexual co...