Bloodborne viral infection in Irish injecting drug users
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Irish injecting drug users and hepatitis C: the importance of the social context of injecting.
BACKGROUND The incidence of hepatitis C (HCV) infection among injecting drug users (IDUs) in Dublin is particularly high by international standards. The most robust predictor of an IDU's HCV status is his or her total number of lifetime injecting episodes. It has been proposed that participation in specific unsafe injecting practices is the principal contributor to this accumulated risk. We sou...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addiction
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0965-2140
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1998.931116493.x