Prevalence of hepatitis C, hepatitis B and HIV among new attenders to the Trinity Court Drug Treatment Centre, Dublin, between September 1992 and September 1997
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injecting drug users (Author postprint) in Addiction, 93(11), 1649-1656 [Accessed: (date) from www.drugsandalcohol.ie] 1 Note: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Addiction following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Smyth BP, Keenan E and O’Connor JJ (1998) Bloodborne viral infection in Irish injecting drug users, Addiction, 93(11), 1649-1656] is available online at http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/117967480/toc
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