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11389492

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-4
pubmed:abstractText
Skin and soft-tissue abscesses, a common problem among injection drug users (IDUs), result in serious morbidity for the patient and costly hospitalizations for incision and drainage; however, there has been little etiologic or preventive epidemiologic research on this problem. We performed a case-control study that enrolled 151 IDUs who had been given a new diagnosis of abscess requiring incision and drainage (cases) and 267 IDUs who did not have abscess or other bacterial infection during the previous year and who were stratum-matched to cases according to age, sex, and race (controls). Subcutaneous or intramuscular, instead of intravenous, injection is a major risk factor for abscess among IDUs. The injection of a cocaine and heroin mixture, or "speedball," may predispose patients to develop abscess by inducing soft-tissue ischemia. Cleaning the skin with alcohol before injection was found to have a protective effect. Neither human immunodeficiency virus nor human T-lymphotropic virus type II seropositivity was significantly associated with abscess.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1058-4838
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
33
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
35-40
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Risk factors for skin and soft-tissue abscesses among injection drug users: a case-control study.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0884, USA. murphy@itsa.ucsf.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.