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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...
Autores principales: | Trayner, Kirsten M. A., Weir, Amanda, McAuley, Andrew, Godbole, Gauri, Amar, Corinne, Grant, Kathie, Penrice, Gillian, Roy, Kirsty |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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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 |
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