Prevalence and correlates of hepatitis A among adult drug users: The significance of incarceration and race/ethnicity

Vaccine

Volumn 25, Issue 41, 2007, Pages 7125-7131

  Latimer, William W ^a   Moleko, Anne Gloria ^b   Melnikov, Alexander ^a   Mitchell, Mary ^a   Severtson, S G ^a   von Thomsen, Sarah ^a   Graham, Camelia ^a   Alama, Deanna ^a   Floyd, Leah ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Correctional facility; Drug use; Ethnic differences in infectious disease; HAV infection prevalence; Health disparities; Incarceration; Jail; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG USE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; SCREENING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; BALTIMORE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEPATITIS A; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; PRISONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 34748890034     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2007.07.041     Document Type: Article

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