Sexual and Other Noninjection Risks for HBV and HCV Seroconversions among Noninjecting Heroin Users
Author(s) -
Alan Neaigus,
V. Anna Gyarmathy,
Mingfang Zhao,
Maureen Miller,
Samuel R. Friedman,
Don C. Des Jarlais
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1086/512081
Subject(s) - seroconversion , medicine , hazard ratio , hepatitis b virus , immunology , heroin , hepatitis c , hepatitis b , hepatitis c virus , proportional hazards model , demography , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , virus , confidence interval , drug , psychiatry , sociology
Many heroin users do not inject drugs but may still be at risk of infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus (HBV), and hepatitis C virus (HCV), via sexual or other noninjection-related activity.
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