title: Injecting drug use as risk factor for visceral leishmaniasis in AIDS patients.
abstract: In Madrid Region 6652 AIDS cases were diagnosed between 1982 and 1993. Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) was present in 166 (2.49%). VL frequency among injecting drug users proved higher than that for the other transmission categories (relative risk 2.57; 95% confidence interval 1.64-4.01). This could point to an alternative Leishmania transmission route via needle sharing.
authors.affiliation: National Centre for Epidemiology, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Amela
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: López-Gay
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Alberdi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Castilla
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D007898:Leishmaniasis, Visceral / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000150:complications*