Risk of hepatitis B infection among young injection drug users in San Francisco: opportunities for intervention.

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Published in West J Med on January 01, 2000

Authors

K H Seal1, K C Ochoa, J A Hahn, J P Tulsky, B R Edlin, A R Moss

Author Affiliations

1: Urban Health Study, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA. karene@itsa.ucsf.edu

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