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Differences in the Social Networks of Ethnic Vietnamese and Non-Vietnamese Injecting Drug Users and Their Implications for Blood-borne Virus Transmission. Aitken CK, Higgs P and Bowden S (2007)

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The social networks of 49 ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users (IDUs) and 150 IDUs of other ethnicities recruited in Melbourne, Australia, were examined for ethnic differences in distribution of hepatitis C virus infection risk using social network analysis and molecular epidemiology. Vietnamese IDUs were more highly connected than non-Vietnamese IDUs, and more likely to be members of dense injecting sub-networks.


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