High prevalence of hepatitis C virus infection and low level of awareness among people who recently started injecting drugs in a cross-sectional study in Germany, 2011–2014: missed opportunities for hepatitis C testing

BACKGROUND: In Germany, risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is highest among people who inject drugs (PWID). New injectors (NI) are particularly vulnerable for HCV-acquisition, but little is known about health seeking behaviour and opportunities for intervention in this group. We describe char...

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Autores principales: Enkelmann, Julia, Gassowski, Martyna, Nielsen, Stine, Wenz, Benjamin, Roß, Stefan, Marcus, Ulrich, Bremer, Viviane, Zimmermann, Ruth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6954578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31924208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0338-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6954578/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31924208
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-019-0338-y

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