Absence of viral transmission in injecting drug users in Russia [10]

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Volumn 358, Issue 9286, 2001, Pages 1016-1017

  Bobkov, Aleksei F ^a   Samokhvalov, Evgeny I ^b   Lvov, Dmitry K ^b   Bobkova, Marina R ^b   Pokrovsky, Vadim V ^b   Weber, Jonathan N ^b  

^a D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG USE; EUROPEAN UNION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 2; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; USSR; VIRUS STRAIN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0035934547     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(01)06146-3     Document Type: Letter

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