Risk Factors for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in Intravenous Drug Users
- 28 September 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 321 (13) , 874-879
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198909283211306
Abstract
To identify risk factors for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in intravenous drug users, we undertook a study of the seroprevalence of HIV antibody in 452 persons enrolled in a methadone-treatment program in the Bronx, New York. The seroprevalence of HIV was 39.4 percent overall, 49.1 percent in blacks, 41.8 percent in Hispanics, and 17.2 percent in non-Hispanic whites (P<0.001 for all comparisons).This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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