Epidemiology

Picture Of Hepatitis B and C In Drug Users Needs Fine-Tuning

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, February 4th, 2002

by Sonia Nichols, senior medical writer - Epidemiologists using data collected from injection drug users who attend treatment centers may be getting an incomplete picture about viral hepatitis infection rates in the injection drug use population at large.

More specifically, information about hepatitis B and C virus (HBV, HCV) infection rates cannot be extended from information gathered at treatment centers to wider population groups when looking at injection drug users, according to P.A. Cook and colleagues of Liverpool John Moores University School of Health and Human Sciences in England.

Cook and associates conducted a cross-sectional survey of HBV...

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