A family with five persons affected with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (myositis ossificans progressiva) in three generations is described. This is the first well documented three generation family with this condition and provides further evidence for autosomal dominant inheritance. A wide range of phenotypic severity is apparent, from disabling ectopic bone formation and premature deat...

To determine HIV prevalence and place of exposure for illegal migrants in Italy, we tested 3,003 illegal adult migrants for HIV; 29 (0.97%) were HIV positive. Antibody avidity index results (indicators of time of infection) were available for 27 of those persons and showed that 6 (22.2%) presumably acquired their infection after migration.

We report evidence that Amblyomma maculatum tick populations are well established in southeastern Virginia. We found that 43.1% of the adult Gulf Coast ticks collected in the summer of 2010 carried Rickettsia parkeri, suggesting that persons living in or visiting southeastern Virginia are at risk for infection with this pathogen.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the risk of cancers with and without a known infectious cause in HIV-infected persons. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. METHODS Adult HIV-infected and matched HIV-uninfected members of Kaiser Permanente followed between 1996 and 2007 for incident AIDS-defining cancers (ADCs), infection-related non-AIDS-defining cancers (NADCs; anal squamous cell, vagina/vulva, Hodgki...

This study investigated involved a review of trends from five Statistics Canada databases on criminality, victimization, custody in correctional services, adult admissions to community and general labour force levels the 6 years following release December 2015 Truth Reconciliation Commission Report. Although there did not appear be decline or overall Indigenous persons 2021, minor improvements ...

OBJECTIVE To longitudinally investigate financial capacity (FC) following traumatic brain injury (TBI). DESIGN Longitudinal study comparing FC in cognitively healthy adults and persons with moderate to severe TBI at time of acute hospitalization (Time 1) and at 6 months postinjury (Time 2). SETTING Inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit. PARTICIPANTS Twenty healthy adult controls and ...

INTRODUCTION Streptococcus pneumoniae is the commonest cause of bacteremic pneumonia among HIV-infected persons. As more countries with high HIV prevalence are implementing infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) programs, we aimed to describe the baseline clinical characteristics of adult invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in the pre-PCV era in South Africa in order to interpret potential...

In 1992 the reported number of cases of tuberculosis (TB) was increased to 26 673 in the United States, an increase of I .5% from 1991 . Although a decline of approximately 5% to 6% occurred from 1981 to 1984, during the period of 1985 to 1992 the number of reported cases increased by 20.1 %. The largest increase in TB cases by age group occurred in the 25to 44year-old cohort (54.5% increase in...