Epidemiological findings and medical, legal, and public health challenges of an investigation of severe soft tissue infections and deaths among injecting drug users - Ireland, 2000

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 894-901

  Murray Lillibridge, Kristy ^a   Barry, J ^b   Reagan, S ^a   O'Flanagan, D ^c   Sayers, G ^b   Bergin, C ^d   Keenan, E ^b   O'Briain, S ^d   Plunkett, P ^d   McMahon, G ^d   Keane, C ^d   O'Sullivan, P ^b   Igoe, D ^c   Mullen, L ^b   Ward, M ^b   Smith, A ^c   Fischer, M ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Eastern Regional Health Authority   (Ireland)

^c HEALTH PROTECTION SURVEILLANCE CENTRE   (Ireland)

^d ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMORPHINE; DNA 16S; METHADONE;

ADULT; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INJECTION SITE INFLAMMATION; IRELAND; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKEMOID REACTION; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; METHADONE TREATMENT; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; HUMANS; IRELAND; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 33745550407     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268805005418     Document Type: Article

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