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Injecting drug use as risk factor for visceral leishmaniasis in AIDS patients

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In Madrid Region 6652 AIDS cases were diagnosed between 1982 and 1993. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was present in 166 (2.49%). VL frequency among injecting drug users proved higher than that for the other transmission categories (relative risk 2.57; 95% confidence interval 1.64–4.01). This could point to an alternative Leishmania transmission route via needle sharing.

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  1. National Centre for Epidemiology, ‘Carlos III’ Institute of Health, Madrid

    C. Amela & J. Castilla

  2. Servicio de Epidemiologia, Consejeria de Salud, Madrid, Spain

    D. López-Gay & J. C. Alberdig

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Amela, C., López-Gay, D., Alberdig, J.C. et al. Injecting drug use as risk factor for visceral leishmaniasis in AIDS patients. Eur J Epidemiol 12, 91–92 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00144435

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