Differences in the social networks of ethnic Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese injecting drug users and their implications for blood-borne virus transmission

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 410-416

  Aitken, C K ^a   Higgs, P ^a   Bowden, S ^b  

^a MACFARLANE BURNET INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (Australia)

^b VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNICITY; HEPATITIS C; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK; VIET NAM; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ETHNIC GROUPS; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VIETNAM;

EID: 39049134700     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268807008679     Document Type: Article

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