Serious unexplained illness among injecting drug users in England
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Unexplained illness and deaths among injecting drug users in England: a case control study using Regional Drug Misuse Databases.
In April to June 2000 an outbreak of unexplained illness in injecting drug users (IDUs) in parts of the UK led to hospitalisation and usually death among those aVected. For investigation purposes a new syndrome-based case definition was constructed as, extensive inflammation at a subcutaneous or intramuscular injection site and, either severe system toxicity or, postmortem evidence of a diVuse ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Weekly releases (1997–2007)
سال: 2000
ISSN: 9999-1233
DOI: 10.2807/esw.04.23.01589-en