A pragmatic harm reduction approach to manage a large outbreak of wound botulism in people who inject drugs, Scotland 2015

• Main Authors: Kirsten M. A. Trayner (Author), Amanda Weir (Author), Andrew McAuley (Author), Gauri Godbole (Author), Corinne Amar (Author), Kathie Grant (Author), Gillian Penrice (Author), Kirsty Roy (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk of wound botulism, a potentially fatal acute paralytic illness. During the first 6 months of 2015, a large outbreak of wound botulism was confirmed among PWID in Scotland, which resulted in the largest outbreak in Europe to...