Tattoos, incarceration and hepatitis B and C among street-recruited injection drug users in New Mexico, USA: Update [2]

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1146-1148

  Samuel, Michael C ^a,d   Bulterys, Marc ^b   Jenison, Steve ^a   Doherty, Patti ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b CDC Global AIDS Program   (Zambia)

^c Exagen Diagnostics   (United States)

^d California STD/HIV Prevention Training Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNOLOGY; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INJECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LETTER; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRISON; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; TATTOOING; UNITED STATES;

HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; NEEDLE SHARING; NEW MEXICO; PRISONS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; TATTOOING;

EID: 28244444598     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805225517     Document Type: Letter

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