Irish Injecting Drug Users and Hepatitis C: Importance of the social context of injecting
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injecting (Author postprint) in International Journal of Epidemiology, 34 (1). pp. 166-172. [Accessed: (date) from www.drugsandalcohol.ie] 1 Note: This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in International Journal of Epidemiology following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Smyth BP (2005) Irish injecting drug users and hepatitis C: importance of the social context of injecting, International Journal of Epidemiology, 34 (1). pp. 166-172] is available online at http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/archive/
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Irish injecting drug users and hepatitis C: the importance of the social context of injecting.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009