Tetanus in injecting drug users - The latest Clostridium infection to threaten injectors in Britain

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Beeching, NJ [1 ]
Crowcroft, NS
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[1] Royal Liverpool Univ Hosp, Trop & Infect Dis Unit, Liverpool L7 8XP, Merseyside, England
[2] Ctr Communicable Dis Surveillance, Immunisat Dept, Hlth Protect Agcy, London NW9 5EQ, England
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BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL | 2005年 / 330卷 / 7485期
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10.1136/bmj.330.7485.208
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R5 [内科学];
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1002 ; 100201 ;
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