Respondent-driven sampling of injection drug users in two U.S.-Mexico border cities: recruitment dynamics and impact on estimates of HIV and syphilis prevalence.

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Published in J Urban Health on November 01, 2006

Authors

Simon D W Frost1, Kimberly C Brouwer, Michelle A Firestone Cruz, Rebeca Ramos, Maria Elena Ramos, Remedios M Lozada, Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, Steffanie A Strathdee

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology and Antiviral Research Center, University of California, San Diego, CA 92103, USA. sdfrost@ucsd.edu

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