Some are like one of Dr. Morris's recent patients, Michelle Rhynes, 35.
And in a rare move, the authorities shut down Ms. Nguyen's employer, a small hospital on the Upper East Side known mostly for cosmetic surgery, and prepared to treat its staff and recent patients with antibiotics.
Dr. David S. Chu, a specialist in cornea diseases, alerted the company that three of his recent patients had been afflicted with a microbe that caused a potentially blinding eye infection.
Fugedy's recent patients include a bipolar pregnant woman who couldn't take her medications during pregnancy and a thirty-year-old schizophrenic man who had been unable to tolerate antipsychotics.
On the same evening as the Glen Head event, Dr. Stephen T. Greenberg, a Woodbury-based plastic surgeon, hosted a "cosmetic surgery fashion show" at the Carlyle on the Green, a catering facility in Bethpage State Park, using 10 of his recent patients, ages 22 to 51, as models.
Last, 6 recent patients received humanized monoclonal anti-C5 antibody (eculizumab).
The one hundred most recent patients within this group were then selected.
But most of the recent patients were infected with Bordetella strains that have mutations in the genes for two key proteins thought to trigger production of immunizing antibodies.
If substance use is recent, patients must be actively participating in treatment for the disorder.
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Samples from recent patients were obtained with written informed consent.
