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Development of a filter to prevent infections with spore-forming bacteria in injecting drug users
BACKGROUND: In heroin injectors, there have been a number of outbreaks caused by spore-forming bacteria, causing serious infections such as anthrax or botulism. These are, most likely, caused by injecting contaminated heroin, and our aim was to develop a filter that efficiently removes these bacteri...
Autores principales: | Alhusein, Nour, Scott, Jenny, Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara, Bolhuis, Albert |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5131546/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27905935 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-016-0122-1 |
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