Trouble with bleeding: Risk factors for acute hepatitis C among HIV-positive gay men from Germany-A case-control study

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Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Schmidt, Axel J ^a   Rockstroh, Jürgen K ^b   Vogel, Martin ^b   An der Heiden, Matthias ^a   Baillot, Armin ^c   Krznaric, Ivanka ^d   Radun, Doris ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c Governmental Institute of Public Health of Lower Saxony   (Germany)

^d Medical Practice   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; COCAINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FISTING (SEX); GERMANY; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SEXUAL TRANSMISSION; ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLEEDING; CONDOM; CROSS INFECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

HEPATITIS C VIRUS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDOMS; CROSS INFECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; GERMANY; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEMORRHAGE; HEPATITIS C; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952436367     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017781     Document Type: Article

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