Ongoing outbreak of multiple blood-borne infections in injecting drug users in Romania

Public Health

Volumn 127, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1048-1050

  Oprea, C ^a,b   Ceausu, E ^a,b   Ruta, S ^b,c  

^a VICTOR BABES NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (Romania)

^b CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c STEFAN S NICOLAU INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIAMORPHINE; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG USER; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACINETOBACTER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOODBORNE BACTERIUM; BLOODBORNE VIRUS; BLOODBORNE VIRUS INFECTION; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; DELTA AGENT HEPATITIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENDOCARDITIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; KLEBSIELLA; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE BLOOD BORNE INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; ROMANIA; SEPSIS; SERODIAGNOSIS; SKIN INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL; TATTOO; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNPROTECTED SEX; URBAN AREA; VIRUS;

ROMANIA;

EID: 84888306059     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: 14765616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2013.08.018     Document Type: Article

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