1.   All had persistent infection with high-risk human papillomavirus.

2.   Six patients with alcoholic liver disease had had serious infections within the past year.

3.   Six patients were found from their medical records to have had serious infections either during the current admission or within the previous two years while drinking heavily.

4.   Six patients had had previous infections and each of these was drinking heavily.

5.   Two had pneumococcal infection.

6.   These earlier studies were performed before the recognition of H pylori and most of the patients included would have had the infection.

7.   Four patients had both infections.

8.   H pylori is associated with gastritis and peptic ulcer and possibly with non-ulcer dyspepsia, so both patients may have had chronic infection.

9.   She questioned him, trying to find out if he had an infection that could account for the temperature.

10.   And, because of the old-fashioned way doctors here treat the disease, thousands of South Africans have infections resistant to all known drugs.