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Rectum carried drugs may spread hepatitis A among drug addicts

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Summary, in English

An hepatitis A epidemic among 36 persons, mainly drug addicts, occurring over an 18-week period, is described. There were indications that smuggling and transportation of narcotic drugs in the rectum started the outbreak, either through direct contamination of the drug or manipulation of the drug resulting in contaminated fingers.

Publishing year

1985

Language

English

Pages

1-4

Publication/Series

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volume

17

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Informa Healthcare

Topic

  • Infectious Medicine

Status

Published

Research group

  • Clinical Microbiology, Malmö

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1651-1980