Charles E. Cherubin

Infective Endocarditis in Narcotic Addicts

Abstract To form a comprehensive picture of endocarditis in narcotic addicts, twenty-nine hospitalized and seven nonhospitalized cases were identified and studied. Sole tricuspid valve involvement ...

The Epidemiology of "Skin Popping" in New York City'

Since 1955 nearly three-fourths of the known cases of tetanus in New York City have occurred in narcotic addicts. Tetanus in addicts gives the impression of being a new and different disease because of its unusual age, sex, residential and seasonal distribution and because of its severity (Cherubin, 1967). The age distribution, the increased case fatality and the absence of a summer peak of incidence can be explained: first, by the age distribution of addicts in this city; second, by the more severe nature of tetanus arising from puncture wounds; and last, by an absence of a summer increase in occupational exposure that exists for the nonaddict population. Left unexplained are the preponderance of cases in women and the unusual focus of the disease in the area of Harlem. Differences in protection by humoral antibodies are inadequate to explain these findings (Cherubin and Millian, report to be published). An

The Emerging Epidemiology of Hepatitis B Antigen

Excerpt When most of us were medical students, we were taught thatserum hepatitiswas that variety of viral hepatitis having a long incubation period and transmitted solely by blood transfusions and...

Bacterial Endocarditis from 1938 to 1967 at the Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

Excerpt The records of 900 patients indexed as having bacterial endocraditis between 1938 and 1967 were reviewed. Seven hundred records contained sufficient clinical and bacteriological data to con...