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Abscess and self-treatment among injection drug users at four California syringe exchanges and their surrounding communities.
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“Prior studies have suggested that women are at increased risk for developing abscesses (Ebright & Pieper, 2002; Fink, Lindsay, Slymen, Kral, & Bluthenthal, 2013; Hope, Marongiu, Parry, & Ncube, 2010; Lloyd-Smith et al., 2005; Lloyd-Smith et al., 2008; Spijkerman, van Ameijden, Mientjes, Coutinho, & van den Hoek, 1996)”
From High Rates of Abscesses and Chronic Wounds in Community-Recruited Injection Drug Users and Associated Risk Factors (2015) · cites this paper as Fink, Lindsay, Slymen, Kral, & Bluthenthal, 2013
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“In Vancouver, Canada, and Tijuana, Mexico, studies reported that ∼20% of IDUs had an abscess in the prior 6 months (Lloyd-Smith et al., 2005; Pollini et al., 2010); in Denver, Colorado, 29% of IDUs reported an abscess in the prior year (Phillips & Stein, 2010).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Fink, D. S., Lindsay, S. P., Slymen, D. J., Kral, A. H., & Bluthenthal, R. N.
- Venue
- Substance Use & Misuse
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-04-12
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 523-531
- ISSN
- 1082-6084
- 1532-2491
- PMC
- PMC4334130
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 7
- Language
- en
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