High prevalence of injection drug use and blood-borne viral infections among patients in an urban emergency department

BACKGROUND: The opioid epidemic has led to an increase in the number of persons who inject drugs, and this population accounts for 12% of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and 60% of new hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in the United States annually. While persons who inject drugs disproporti...

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Autores principales: Anderson, Erik S., Russell, Carly, Basham, Kellie, Montgomery, Martha, Lozier, Helen, Crocker, Abigail, Zuluaga, Marisa, White, Douglas A. E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7272082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32497108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233927

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7272082/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32497108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233927

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