Microbiology and Initial Antibiotic Therapy for Injection Drug Users and Non-Injection Drug Users with Cutaneous Abscesses in the Era of Community-associated Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus
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seroprevalence of hepatitis e virus among injection drug users and non-injection drug users in hamadan, west of iran
background hepatitis e virus (hev) infection is a self-limited hepatitis and the most common cause of acute adult hepatitis in asia. young adults and middle-aged populations are more likely to be infected than other age groups. objectives the aim of this study was to determine the seroprevalence of anti-hev among injection drug users (idus) compared to non-idus. patients and methods this was a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Academic Emergency Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1069-6563
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12727