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One benefit is that researchers can now focus etiologic investigations at the finer spatial scales where local excesses in cancer morbidity are found on Long Island.
In a recent study of blood stream infection of hospitalized patients with HIV, E coli was not even mentioned among the common etiologic agents [ 14 ] . In the present study a significant number of the patients with blood stream infection were women, who are at higher risk for genitourinary infection.
Among the most important is the ability to assess the large majority of episodes of illness for which no etiologic agents are identified, either because good medical practice does not require that clinicians perform diagnostic tests, or because an unusual agent may fail to be detected by standard laboratory tests.
Converging points of evidence implicate infection by high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV) types as a critical etiologic factor in cervical tumorigenesis [ 1 ] . Epidemiological and experimental data, however, show that only a small fraction of HPV-infected cervical intraepithelial neoplastic (CIN) lesions progress to invasive cervical carcinoma (CC) [ 2 ] . These findings suggest somatic genetic mutations play a critical role in the initiation and progression of CC.
Patients with cutaneous and hepatic A-GVHD frequently have apoptosis in their colon biopsies, without any intestinal symptoms [ 4 ] . This may represent sub-clinical intestinal A-GVHD if the apoptosis is observed in relation to the crypts [ 10 ] . If other findings (Table 4) are present in the absence of crypt apoptosis, it may represent evidence of past A-GVHD or due to other etiologic factors such as chronic infections and inflammatory bowel disease.
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