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Reducing injection intensity is associated with decreased risk for invasive bacterial infection among high-frequency injection drug users

BACKGROUND: Bacterial infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality for persons who inject drugs (PWID). Injection cessation may help abrogate such infections, but maintaining complete cessation is challenging. Limited data exists on the role of reduced injection intensity on invasive bacter...

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Autores principales: Islam, Salequl, Piggott, Damani A., Moriggia, Alberto, Astemborski, Jacquie, Mehta, Shruti H., Thomas, David L., Kirk, Gregory D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6580632/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31208419
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0312-8