Economic recession and emergence of an HIV-1 outbreak among drug injectors in Athens metropolitan area: A longitudinal study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Paraskevis, Dimitrios ^a   Nikolopoulos, Georgios ^b,h   Fotiou, Anastasios ^c   Tsiara, Chrissa ^b   Paraskeva, Dimitra ^b   Sypsa, Vana ^a   Lazanas, Marios ^d   Gargalianos, Panagiotis ^e   Psichogiou, Mina ^a   Skoutelis, Athanasios ^f   Wiessing, Lucas ^g   Friedman, Samuel R ^h   Des Jarlais, Don C ⁱ   Terzidou, Manina ^c   Kremastinou, Jenny ^b   Malliori, Meni ^j   Hatzakis, Angelos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Greece)

^d RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^e G GENNIMATAS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^f EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^g EUROPEAN MONITORING CENTRE FOR DRUGS AND DRUG ADDICTION   (Portugal)

^h NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND RESEARCH INSTITUTES   (United States)

ⁱ BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j Organisation Against Drugs (OKANA)   (Greece)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECONOMIC RECESSION; EPIDEMIC; GREECE; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; UNEMPLOYMENT; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CITIES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG USERS; ECONOMIC RECESSION; FEMALE; GREECE; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84893354645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078941     Document Type: Article

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