Cargando…

A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015

BACKGROUND: People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted in the largest outbreak in Europe to date. ME...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Trayner, Kirsten M. A., Weir, Amanda, McAuley, Andrew, Godbole, Gauri, Amar, Corinne, Grant, Kathie, Penrice, Gillian, Roy, Kirsty
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6042261/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29996865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-018-0243-9