Effects of age, gender, duration of drug use and infection with viral hepatitis B and C on lymphocyte subsets in a population of HIV-negative injecting drug users in Italy

Addiction Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 201-206

  Rezza, Giovanni ^a   D'Egidio, Pietro ^b   Lepri, Alessandro Cozzi ^a   Costantini, Damiano ^b   Petrucci, Andrea ^a   Pezzotti, Patrizio ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SERT USL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; HEPATITIS B(E) ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; ITALY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0030895412     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13556219772741     Document Type: Article

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