High Prevalence of Hepatitis C virus Among Injection Drug Users in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China
Autor: | Chiyu Zhang, Qinjuan Ge, Nana Wu, Jun Zhang, Yongkang Xu, Xiaoxia Liu, Caihong Sun, Guangli He, Qingchuan Feng |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
Předmět: |
Drug
medicine.medical_specialty High prevalence business.industry Addiction media_common.quotation_subject Hepatitis C virus Public health virus diseases medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Virology Injection drug use Substance abuse Infectious Diseases Internal medicine medicine Original Article China business media_common |
Zdroj: | Indian Journal of Virology. 22:77-83 |
ISSN: | 0974-0120 0970-2822 |
Popis: | The constant increase in the number of drug users and rapidly spread of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) and Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among drug users result in a serious public health problem in China. To investigate HCV prevalence among drug users in Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu, China, 207 drug users from Zhenjiang were enrolled in this study during 2009 and the prevalence of HCV, HIV and syphilis infection were detected. HCV prevalence among injection drug users (IDUs) was 81.6%, significantly higher than that (22.9%) among oral drug users (P |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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