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Hepatitis C virus infection among drug injectors in St Petersburg, Russia: social and molecular epidemiology of an endemic infection

✍ Scribed by Elijah Paintsil; Sergei V. Verevochkin; Elena Dukhovlinova; Linda Niccolai; Russell Barbour; Edward White; Olga V. Toussova; Louis Alexander; Andrei P. Kozlov; Robert Heimer

Book ID: 108598841
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Weight: 409 KB
Volume: 104
Category: Article
ISSN: 0965-2140
DOI: 10.1111/j.1360-0443.2009.02687.x

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