Alcohol and infectious diseases: An overlooked causal linkage?

Addiction

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 331-332

  Parry, Charles ^a   Rehm, Jürgen ^b   Poznyak, Vladimir ^c   Room, Robin ^d  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; EDITORIAL; HEPATITIS C; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 59849114270     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: 13600443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2008.02500.x     Document Type: Editorial

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