Palmateer, Norah Elizabeth and Ramsay, Colin N. and Browning, Lynda and Goldberg, David J. and Hutchinson, Sharon (2012) Anthrax infection among heroin users in Scotland during 2009-2010 : a case-control study by linkage to a national drug treatment database. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 55 (5). pp. 706-710. ISSN 1058-4838
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Abstract
Using a data-linkage approach, we conducted a case-control study to investigate risk factors in an outbreak of anthrax infection among Scottish heroin users. Factors associated with an increased risk of infection included longer injecting history, receiving opioid substitution therapy, and alcohol consumption. Smoking heroin was associated with lower risk of infection.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 42205 |
| Keywords: | anthrax infection , heroin users , scotland, 2009-2010, case control study, national drug treatment database, Mathematics, Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Subjects: | Science > Mathematics Medicine > Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Department: | Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics |
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| Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2012 15:07 |
| Last modified: | 26 Nov 2012 15:07 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/42205 |
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