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Transmission of malaria by intravenous drug misuse

Letter from Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

John Dunn*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Psiqiatria, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Rua Botucatu, 740, São Paulo-SP, Brazil 04023-062
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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Mesquita, F. et al (1991) Pilot study of HIV antibody seroprevalence among IVDUs in the city of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil. Abstracts of the Seventh International Conference on AIDS. Florence, (Abstract number: MC 3008).Google Scholar
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