Publications by authors named "Louis Trachtman"

Although the number of tuberculosis cases in the US is at an all-time low, with progressive declines seen for the past 17 years, many goals in the tuberculosis elimination process remain unrealized. This report describes a cluster of four tuberculosis cases in a family, including one case of acquired multidrug resistant tuberculosis. It also underscores some important issues in tuberculosis control today, including significant disparities in the foreign-born population with multidrug resistant tuberculosis as a looming problem, as well as utilization of therapeutic drug level monitoring in complicated cases.

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Sexually active young adults and adolescents experience a majority of the burden of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States and public health resources are appropriately directed at these age groups. However, sexual health of older adults is often ignored. An analysis of sexually transmitted disease surveillance data from the Louisiana Office of Public Health show that both the numbers and rates of primary and secondary syphilis cases have increased in older age groups over the past 10 years.

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National and international studies have suggested in the past that there are disparities based on the race of the patient for the diagnoses of schizophrenic disorders. The purpose of this study was to look for the same disparities in Louisiana inpatient population based on LAHIDD (Louisiana Hospital Inpatient Discharge Database) data from the years 2000 to 2003. We also looked for co-morbid substance and alcohol-related mental disorders in the same patient population.

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Data on tuberculosis from the Tuberculosis Information Management System in Louisiana have been analyzed. Although tuberculosis has been decreasing in recent years, it remains a public health problem in some population groups.

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This article gives a brief descriptive synopsis of the disease syphilis and presents in narrative and graphic form current statistics and those of the recent past of the incidence of syphilis cases in Louisiana. The latest recommendations for treatment of all stages of syphilis from the U.S.

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