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Burden of Liver Disease among Community-Based People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) in Chennai, India
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: We characterize the burden of liver disease in a cohort of PWID in Chennai, India, with a high prevalence of HCV. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 1,042 PWID were sampled through community outreach in Chennai. Participants underwent fasting blood draw, questionnaire and an examinatio...
Autores principales: | Solomon, Sunil S., Srikrishnan, Aylur K., McFall, Allison M., Kumar, M. Suresh, Saravanan, Shanmugam, Balakrishnan, Pachamuthu, Solomon, Suniti, Thomas, David L., Sulkowski, Mark S., Mehta, Shruti H. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727916/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26812065 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0147879 |
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