Risk Factors for Skin and Soft‐Tissue Abscesses among Injection Drug Users: A Case‐Control Study
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- 1 July 2001
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 33 (1) , 35-40
- https://doi.org/10.1086/320879
Abstract
Skin and soft-tissue abscesses, a common problem among injection drug users (IDUs), result in serious morbidity for the patient and costly hospitalizKeywords
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