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Transmission, Intravenous Drug Abuser

MedGen UID:
309235
•Concept ID:
C1517568
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Pathologic Function

Definition

Passage or transfer, as of a disease, by intravenous injection with shared drug paraphernalia from a donor intravenous drug abuser to a recipient intravenous drug abuser. (NCI) [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVTransmission, Intravenous Drug Abuser

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Management of in- and out-of-hospital screening for hepatitis C.
Zhou J, Wang FD, Li LQ, Chen EQ
Front Public Health 2022;10:984810. Epub 2023 Jan 25 doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.984810. PMID: 36761331Free PMC Article
HIV treatment as prevention among injection drug users.
Wood E, Milloy MJ, Montaner JS
Curr Opin HIV AIDS 2012 Mar;7(2):151-6. doi: 10.1097/COH.0b013e32834f9927. PMID: 22227587
Drug treatment as HIV prevention: expanding treatment options.
Metzger DS, Zhang Y
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep 2010 Nov;7(4):220-5. doi: 10.1007/s11904-010-0059-z. PMID: 20803321Free PMC Article

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Novel Circovirus in Blood from Intravenous Drug Users, Yunnan, China.
Li Y, Zhang P, Ye M, Tian RR, Li N, Cao L, Ma Y, Liu FL, Zheng YT, Zhang C
Emerg Infect Dis 2023 May;29(5):1015-1019. doi: 10.3201/eid2905.221617. PMID: 37081583Free PMC Article
Incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs, and associations with age and sex or gender: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.
Artenie A, Stone J, Fraser H, Stewart D, Arum C, Lim AG, McNaughton AL, Trickey A, Ward Z, Abramovitz D, Alary M, Astemborski J, Bruneau J, Clipman SJ, Coffin CS, Croxford S, DeBeck K, Emanuel E, Hayashi K, Hermez JG, Low-Beer D, Luhmann N, Macphail G, Maher L, Palmateer NE, Patel EU, Sacks-Davis R, Van Den Boom W, van Santen DK, Walker JG, Hickman M, Vickerman P; HIV and HCV Incidence Review Collaborative Group
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2023 Jun;8(6):533-552. Epub 2023 Mar 27 doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00018-3. PMID: 36996853Free PMC Article
Health service utilisation and access for people who inject drugs during COVID-19.
Efunnuga H, Higgs P, Walker S, O'Keefe D
Drug Alcohol Rev 2022 Sep;41(6):1304-1310. Epub 2022 Mar 9 doi: 10.1111/dar.13456. PMID: 35266229Free PMC Article
Young Drug Users: a Vulnerable Population and an Underutilized Resource in HIV/HCV Prevention.
Mateu-Gelabert P, Guarino H, Quinn K, Meylakhs P, Campos S, Meylakhs A, Berbesi D, Toro-Tobón D, Goodbody E, Ompad DC, Friedman SR
Curr HIV/AIDS Rep 2018 Aug;15(4):324-335. doi: 10.1007/s11904-018-0406-z. PMID: 29931468Free PMC Article
HIV and intravenous drug use.
Des Jarlais DC, Friedman SR
AIDS 1988;2 Suppl 1:S65-9. doi: 10.1097/00002030-198800001-00010. PMID: 3147682

Diagnosis

Prescribing Syringes to People Who Inject Drugs: Advancing Harm Reduction in Primary Care.
Chatterjee A, Bannister M, Hill LG, Davis CS
J Gen Intern Med 2023 Jun;38(8):1980-1983. Epub 2023 Apr 5 doi: 10.1007/s11606-023-08183-7. PMID: 37020124Free PMC Article
Non-imported malaria in non-endemic countries: a review of cases in Spain.
Velasco E, Gomez-Barroso D, Varela C, Diaz O, Cano R
Malar J 2017 Jun 29;16(1):260. doi: 10.1186/s12936-017-1915-8. PMID: 28662650Free PMC Article
Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: lessons learned from success in Thailand.
Thisyakorn U
Paediatr Int Child Health 2017 May;37(2):99-108. Epub 2017 Feb 8 doi: 10.1080/20469047.2017.1281873. PMID: 28173741
Epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in Iran.
Taherkhani R, Farshadpour F
World J Gastroenterol 2016 Jun 14;22(22):5143-53. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i22.5143. PMID: 27298557Free PMC Article
Community-acquired staphylococcal pneumonia.
Santos JW, Nascimento DZ, Guerra VA, Rigo Vda S, Michel GT, Dalcin TC
J Bras Pneumol 2008 Sep;34(9):683-9. PMID: 18982205

Therapy

Incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs, and associations with age and sex or gender: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.
Artenie A, Stone J, Fraser H, Stewart D, Arum C, Lim AG, McNaughton AL, Trickey A, Ward Z, Abramovitz D, Alary M, Astemborski J, Bruneau J, Clipman SJ, Coffin CS, Croxford S, DeBeck K, Emanuel E, Hayashi K, Hermez JG, Low-Beer D, Luhmann N, Macphail G, Maher L, Palmateer NE, Patel EU, Sacks-Davis R, Van Den Boom W, van Santen DK, Walker JG, Hickman M, Vickerman P; HIV and HCV Incidence Review Collaborative Group
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2023 Jun;8(6):533-552. Epub 2023 Mar 27 doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00018-3. PMID: 36996853Free PMC Article
Viral hepatitis in persons living with HIV in the post-COVID era.
Soriano V, Moreno-Torres V, Mendoza C, Corral O, Barreiro P
AIDS Rev 2023;25(1):1-13. doi: 10.24875/AIDSRev.M23000061. PMID: 36952663
Interventions to prevent HIV and Hepatitis C among people who inject drugs: Latest evidence of effectiveness from a systematic review (2011 to 2020).
Palmateer N, Hamill V, Bergenstrom A, Bloomfield H, Gordon L, Stone J, Fraser H, Seyler T, Duan Y, Tran R, Trayner K, Biggam C, Smith S, Vickerman P, Hickman M, Hutchinson S
Int J Drug Policy 2022 Nov;109:103872. Epub 2022 Oct 3 doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2022.103872. PMID: 36202039
Epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in Iran.
Taherkhani R, Farshadpour F
World J Gastroenterol 2016 Jun 14;22(22):5143-53. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i22.5143. PMID: 27298557Free PMC Article
HIV infection among intravenous drug users: epidemiology and risk reduction.
Des Jarlais DC, Friedman SR
AIDS 1987 Jul;1(2):67-76. PMID: 3130084

Prognosis

Incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs, and associations with age and sex or gender: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.
Artenie A, Stone J, Fraser H, Stewart D, Arum C, Lim AG, McNaughton AL, Trickey A, Ward Z, Abramovitz D, Alary M, Astemborski J, Bruneau J, Clipman SJ, Coffin CS, Croxford S, DeBeck K, Emanuel E, Hayashi K, Hermez JG, Low-Beer D, Luhmann N, Macphail G, Maher L, Palmateer NE, Patel EU, Sacks-Davis R, Van Den Boom W, van Santen DK, Walker JG, Hickman M, Vickerman P; HIV and HCV Incidence Review Collaborative Group
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2023 Jun;8(6):533-552. Epub 2023 Mar 27 doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00018-3. PMID: 36996853Free PMC Article
Viral hepatitis in persons living with HIV in the post-COVID era.
Soriano V, Moreno-Torres V, Mendoza C, Corral O, Barreiro P
AIDS Rev 2023;25(1):1-13. doi: 10.24875/AIDSRev.M23000061. PMID: 36952663
Epidemiology of hepatitis E virus in Iran.
Taherkhani R, Farshadpour F
World J Gastroenterol 2016 Jun 14;22(22):5143-53. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v22.i22.5143. PMID: 27298557Free PMC Article
HIV and the transmission of Leishmania.
Molina R, Gradoni L, Alvar J
Ann Trop Med Parasitol 2003 Oct;97 Suppl 1:29-45. doi: 10.1179/000349803225002516. PMID: 14678631
AIDS and intravenous drug use: a growing menace.
Zapata V, Blanton C
J Drug Educ 1994;24(2):133-8. doi: 10.2190/M3M6-1EH9-YKP6-BPJJ. PMID: 7931923

Clinical prediction guides

Incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs, and associations with age and sex or gender: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.
Artenie A, Stone J, Fraser H, Stewart D, Arum C, Lim AG, McNaughton AL, Trickey A, Ward Z, Abramovitz D, Alary M, Astemborski J, Bruneau J, Clipman SJ, Coffin CS, Croxford S, DeBeck K, Emanuel E, Hayashi K, Hermez JG, Low-Beer D, Luhmann N, Macphail G, Maher L, Palmateer NE, Patel EU, Sacks-Davis R, Van Den Boom W, van Santen DK, Walker JG, Hickman M, Vickerman P; HIV and HCV Incidence Review Collaborative Group
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2023 Jun;8(6):533-552. Epub 2023 Mar 27 doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00018-3. PMID: 36996853Free PMC Article
Plasma Virome Reveals Blooms and Transmission of Anellovirus in Intravenous Drug Users with HIV-1, HCV, and/or HBV Infections.
Li Y, Cao L, Ye M, Xu R, Chen X, Ma Y, Tian RR, Liu FL, Zhang P, Kuang YQ, Zheng YT, Zhang C
Microbiol Spectr 2022 Aug 31;10(4):e0144722. Epub 2022 Jun 27 doi: 10.1128/spectrum.01447-22. PMID: 35758682Free PMC Article
Lessons learned from the Amsterdam Cohort Studies among people who use drugs: a historical perspective.
van Santen DK, Coutinho RA, van den Hoek A, van Brussel G, Buster M, Prins M
Harm Reduct J 2021 Jan 6;18(1):2. doi: 10.1186/s12954-020-00444-6. PMID: 33407562Free PMC Article
HIV prevention intervention for substance users: a review of the literature.
Elkbuli A, Polcz V, Dowd B, McKenney M, Prado G
Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy 2019 Jan 3;14(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s13011-018-0189-7. PMID: 30606266Free PMC Article
HIV treatment as prevention among injection drug users.
Wood E, Milloy MJ, Montaner JS
Curr Opin HIV AIDS 2012 Mar;7(2):151-6. doi: 10.1097/COH.0b013e32834f9927. PMID: 22227587

Recent systematic reviews

Incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs, and associations with age and sex or gender: a global systematic review and meta-analysis.
Artenie A, Stone J, Fraser H, Stewart D, Arum C, Lim AG, McNaughton AL, Trickey A, Ward Z, Abramovitz D, Alary M, Astemborski J, Bruneau J, Clipman SJ, Coffin CS, Croxford S, DeBeck K, Emanuel E, Hayashi K, Hermez JG, Low-Beer D, Luhmann N, Macphail G, Maher L, Palmateer NE, Patel EU, Sacks-Davis R, Van Den Boom W, van Santen DK, Walker JG, Hickman M, Vickerman P; HIV and HCV Incidence Review Collaborative Group
Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol 2023 Jun;8(6):533-552. Epub 2023 Mar 27 doi: 10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00018-3. PMID: 36996853Free PMC Article
Meta-analysis and time series modeling allow a systematic review of primary HIV-1 drug-resistant prevalence in Latin America and Caribbean.
Coelho AV, De Moura RR, Da Silva RC, Kamada AJ, Guimarães RL, Brandão LA, Coelho HF, Crovella S
Curr HIV Res 2015;13(2):125-42. doi: 10.2174/1570162x13999150317155040. PMID: 25777517
Global epidemiology of injecting drug use and HIV among people who inject drugs: a systematic review.
Mathers BM, Degenhardt L, Phillips B, Wiessing L, Hickman M, Strathdee SA, Wodak A, Panda S, Tyndall M, Toufik A, Mattick RP; 2007 Reference Group to the UN on HIV and Injecting Drug Use
Lancet 2008 Nov 15;372(9651):1733-45. Epub 2008 Sep 23 doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61311-2. PMID: 18817968
Non-injection drug use and Hepatitis C Virus: a systematic review.
Scheinmann R, Hagan H, Lelutiu-Weinberger C, Stern R, Des Jarlais DC, Flom PL, Strauss S
Drug Alcohol Depend 2007 Jun 15;89(1):1-12. Epub 2006 Dec 15 doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.11.014. PMID: 17174481Free PMC Article
Hepatitis C: an epidemiological review.
Memon MI, Memon MA
J Viral Hepat 2002 Mar;9(2):84-100. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2893.2002.00329.x. PMID: 11876790

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