Injecting drug use as risk factor for visceral leishmaniasis in AIDS patients
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 12 (1) , 91-92
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00144435
Abstract
In Madrid Region 6652 AIDS cases were diagnosed between 1982 and 1993. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was present in 166 (2.49%). VL frequency among injecting drug users proved higher than that for the other transmission categories (relative risk 2.57; 95% confidence interval 1.64–4.01). This could point to an alternative Leishmania transmission route via needle sharing.Keywords
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