Is prison tattooing a risk behaviour for
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Professor John Strang; Joan Heuston; Christopher Whiteley; Loraine Bacchus; Tony
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## Background Tattooing has, for more than a century, been recognized as a potential source of transmission of pathogens such as syphilis and hepatitis B. With the advent of HIV and other viruses such as hepatitis C, the extent and nature of tattooing warrants specific study. Tattoos a