HIV-1 transmission in injection paraphernalia: Heating drug solutions may inactivate HIV-1

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes and Human Retrovirology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 194-199

  Clatts, Michael C ^a   Heimer, Robert ^b   Abdala, Nadia ^b   Goldsamt, Lloyd A ^a   Sotheran, Jo L ^a   Anderson, Kenneth T ^c   Gallo, Toni M ^a   Hoffer, Lee D ^c   Luciano, Pellegrino A ^a   Kyriakides, Tassos ^b  

^a NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug injection practices; Ethnography; HIV 1 transmission

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; COCAINE; ILLICIT DRUG;

ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG SOLUTION; HEATING; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; INJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS INACTIVATION; VIRUS INHIBITION; VIRUS TITRATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; RNA VIRUSES;

EID: 0032708624     PISSN: 10779450     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00126334-199910010-00013     Document Type: Article

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