Update: Clostridium novyi and unexplained illness among injecting-drug users - Scotland, Ireland, and England, April-June 2000

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Volumn 49, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 543-545

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ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; IRELAND; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; CLOSTRIDIUM; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; IRELAND; MIDDLE AGED; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

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