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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...

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Autores principales: Alhusein, Nour, Scott, Jenny, Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara, Bolhuis, Albert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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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