Incidence of bloodborne virus infection and risk behaviours in a cohort of injecting drug users in Victoria, 1990-1995

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 17-20

  Crofts, Nick ^a   Aitken, Campbell K ^a  

^a MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RISK; SEROCONVERSION; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0030757846     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1997.tb138757.x     Document Type: Article

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