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Chapter 61 - Infectious Complications of Injection Drug Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

By
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Daniel Schnorr
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 430 - 441
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Mathew, J., Addai, T., Anand, A., et al. Clinical features, site of involvement, bacteriologic findings, and outcome of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug users. Arch. Intern. Med. 1995; 155(15): 1641–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Samet, J. H., Shevitz, A., Fowle, J., and Singer, D. E. Hospitalization decisions in febrile intravenous drug users. Am. J. Med. 1990; 89(1): 53–7.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gonzales y Tucker, R. D. and Frazee, B. W. View from the front lines: an emergency medicine perspective on clostridial infections in injection drug users. Anaerobe 2014; 30: 108–15.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mathew, J., Addai, T., Anand, A., et al. Clinical features, site of involvement, bacteriologic findings, and outcome of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug users. Arch. Intern. Med. 1995; 155(15): 1641–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Samet, J. H., Shevitz, A., Fowle, J., and Singer, D. E. Hospitalization decisions in febrile intravenous drug users. Am. J. Med. 1990; 89(1): 53–7.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Additional Readings

Gonzales y Tucker, R. D. and Frazee, B. W. View from the front lines: an emergency medicine perspective on clostridial infections in injection drug users. Anaerobe 2014; 30: 108–15.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Mathew, J., Addai, T., Anand, A., et al. Clinical features, site of involvement, bacteriologic findings, and outcome of infective endocarditis in intravenous drug users. Arch. Intern. Med. 1995; 155(15): 1641–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Samet, J. H., Shevitz, A., Fowle, J., and Singer, D. E. Hospitalization decisions in febrile intravenous drug users. Am. J. Med. 1990; 89(1): 53–7.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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