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15816144

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-4-8
pubmed:abstractText
Between April and September 2000, 60 injecting drug users in Scotland died or were hospitalized with severe illness. Laboratory investigations suggested that Clostridium novyi and other bacteria were important aetiological agents. To determine associated environmental/behavioural factors a case-control study was undertaken with 19 'definite' and 32 'probable' cases in Glasgow, Scotland. For every deceased case (n=19), up to three proxy individuals were interviewed. Three controls were identified for each case. Multivariate logistic regression analyses compared (i) all cases and controls; (ii) definite cases and matched controls; (iii) probable cases and matched controls. In all three analyses injecting into muscle or skin and injecting most of the time with a filter used by someone else were the variables most strongly associated with illness. Comparing only muscle-injecting cases and controls, cases were significantly more likely to have injected larger amounts of heroin per average injection than were controls. The findings make an important epidemiological contribution to the understanding of the public health and clinical implications of the contamination of illicit drugs by histotoxic clostridia.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0950-2688
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
133
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
193-204
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-5-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Severe illness and death among injecting drug users in Scotland: a case-control study.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Applied Social and Health Research, School of Social Sciences, University of Paisley, High Street, Paisley PA1 2BE, Scotland, UK. avril.taylor@paisley.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article