Regional differences in HIV prevalence among drug users in China: Potential for future spread of HIV?

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Kretzschmar, Mirjam ^a,b,c   Zhang, Weidong ^a,d   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^a   Wang, Lan ^d   Sun, Xinhua ^e   Kraemer, Alexander ^a   Lv, Fan ^d  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^e BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DRUG ABUSE; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ADULT; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ADULT; CHINA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HIV-1; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RISK-TAKING; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 50249121960     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-8-108     Document Type: Article

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