Skin and soft tissue infections and vascular disease among drug users, England [3]

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1510-1511

  Irish, Charles ^a   Maxwell, Roy ^b,c   Dancox, Mark ^c   Brown, Paul ^c   Trotter, Caroline ^b,c   Verne, Julia ^c   Shaw, Mary ^b,c  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c South West Public Health Observatory ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULITIS; DRUG USE; FEMORAL VEIN; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; PHLEBITIS; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; UNITED KINGDOM; VASCULAR DISEASE;

EID: 35548968902     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1310.061196     Document Type: Letter

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