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Respondent-Driven Sampling of Injection Drug Users in Two U.S.–Mexico Border Cities: Recruitment Dynamics and Impact on Estimates of HIV and Syphilis Prevalence

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS), a chain referral sampling approach, is increasingly used to recruit participants from hard-to-reach populations, such as injection drug users (IDUs). Using RDS, we recruited IDUs in Tijuana and Ciudad (Cd.) Juárez, two Mexican cities bordering San Diego, CA and El P...

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Autores principales: Frost, Simon D. W., Brouwer, Kimberly C., Firestone Cruz, Michelle A., Ramos, Rebeca, Ramos, Maria Elena, Lozada, Remedios M., Magis-Rodriguez, Carlos, Strathdee, Steffanie A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1705507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17072761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11524-006-9104-z