intravenous drug
Evaluating the Determinants and Prevalence of HIV among Intravenous Drug Users in Benin
... Benin, intravenous drug users (IDUs) are at higher risk for HIV infection and are one of the groups the National AIDS Control Council (CNLS) has focused on in its strategic ...
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HIV 1 subtype A infection in a community of intravenous drug users in Pakistan
... namely, Intravenous Drug Users (IDUs) and Male Sex Workers ...needle-sharing intravenous drug users, unscreened blood transfusions, and sexual ...
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Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Hospitalized Patients with Community-Acquired Pneumonia who are Active Intravenous Drug Users
... Our study has several strengths. The Louisville Pneumonia Study was a population-based study that included all consecutive hospitalized patients with CAP in the same city for a period of 2 years. Lack of exclusion ...
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Appropriateness of antibiotic treatment in intravenous drug users, a retrospective analysis
... Results: The total number of hospitalizations for infectious diseases was 344 among 216 intravenous drug users. Skin and soft tissue infections (n = 129, 37.5% of hospitalizations), pneumonia (n = 75, ...
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Surgical treatment of infective endocarditis in active intravenous drug users: a justified procedure?
... active intravenous drug abuse (heroin) until the day of ...other drug use history was obtained including type of drug (marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, ecstasy and ...
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Ethnographic study of incidence and severity of intravenous drug errors.
... particular drug round as the general workload on the ward was ...of intravenous drugs, represent- ing 35 different drugs, were prescribed for 106 patients during the ...all intravenous drug ...
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Candida albicans lumbar spondylodiscitis in an intravenous drug user: a case report
... The first patient with fungal Monilia psilosis osteo- myelitis was reported by Connor in 1928 [6], and there was no report of Candida osteomyelitis in the literature until 1970 [7]. A study by Gathe et al. showed that ...
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The “hidden” epidemic: a snapshot of Moroccan intravenous drug users
... their drug (heroin) habit and are on methadone treatment, or chronic HBV carriers that are being treated with anti- viral therapy at the Pasteur Institute of ...Morocco. Drug ad- dict patients all had an ...
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A Prospective Study of Infants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositive and Seronegative Women with a History of Intravenous Drug Use or of Intravenous Drug-Using Sex Partners, in the Bronx, New York City
... Seronegative Women with a History of Intravenous Drug Use or of Intravenous A Prospective Study of Infants of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositive and. Services[r] ...
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A case of septicaemic anthrax in an intravenous drug user
... Case Presentation: A 32 year old intravenous drug user (IVDU), presented with a 12 hour history of increasing purulent discharge from a chronic sinus in his left groin. He had a tachycardia, pyrexia, ...
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Hepatitis Delta Virus in Intravenous Drug Users in Kuala Lumpur
... Hepatitis Delta Virus in Intravenous Drug Users in Kuala Lumpur ORIGINAL ARTICLE Hepatitis Delta Virus in Intravenous Drug Users in Kuala Lumpur G Duraisamy H Zuridah YAriffin cs Kek Blood Services Ce[.] ...
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Infective endocarditis amongst intravenous drug abusers: A Malaysian experience
... Infective endocarditis amongst intravenous drug abusers A Malaysian experience Med J Malaysia Vol 42 No 4 December 1987 INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS AMONGST INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSERS SEEN AT THE UNIVERSITY H[.] ...
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Acute Suppurative Thyroiditis in an Intravenous Drug User with a Preexisting Goiter
... In adults, proposed routes of infection for AST include lymphatic or hematogenous spread, direct inoculation of the thyroid or surrounding anatomy, direct extension of an abscess, and spread through a pyriform sinus ...
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<p>Mycotic pseudoaneurysm in intravenous drug users: current insights</p>
... Mycotic common femoral artery pseudoaneurysm as a consequence of inadvertent arterial self-injection in IVDU remains a common presentation in areas where there are significant populations using intravenous heroin. ...
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Medication Errors in Intravenous Drug Preparation and Administration
... As the outcomes from this study, the guidelines on reconstitution and administration of IV drugs were prepared and have been distributed to the wards to help minimize any doubts or confusion related to the IV drug ...
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Risks, Experiences, and Needs of Female Intravenous Drug Users
... the drug [55, 58, 71, 96, 98, 195-197], seeing injection as a more economical option [99, 133, 196, 197], and in the case of amphetamine injection, seeing injecting as a ‘healthier or cleaner’ option of ...
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Renal AA-amyloidosis in intravenous drug users – a role for HIV-infection?
... Moreover, another study demonstrated that the combination of HIV infection and IVDU increases the risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD) in IVDU, with a higher prevalence of proteinuria i[r] ...
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Spatial clusters of HIV 1 genotypes in a recently infected population in Yunnan, China
... and intravenous drug injection were significantly associated with CRF08_BC infection; homosexual contact was significantly associated with CRF01_AE and CRF07_BC infection; males and non-Chinese had a higher ...
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DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF TRANSDERMAL SYSTEMS CONTAINING VALSARTANSri.Srikanth*, Dr. Somashekar ShyaleDOWNLOAD/VIEW
... of intravenous drug infusion without its potential hazards, the novel drug delivery system has brought renaissance into the pharmaceutical industry for controlled drug ...delivery.Transdermal ...
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Wide Variation in the Multiplicity of HIV-1 Infection among Injection Drug Users
... Subjects with documented serological evidence of recent HIV-1 infection and a concurrent history of injection drug use were selected for study. These individuals had few or no re- ported risk factors for sexual ...
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