Fitness cost of drug resistance in <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> (Publications)
Multidrug-resistant (MDR)--and extensively drug-resistant (XDR)--forms of tuberculosis are growing public health problems. Mathematical models predict that the future of the MDR and XDR tuberculosis e
Drug injection and HIV prevalence in inmates of Glenochil prison (Publications)
OBJECTIVE: To determine prevalence of HIV infection and drug injecting behaviour among inmates of Glenochil Prison on a specified date a year after an outbreak of hepatitis B and HIV infection. DESIGN
Prison rights: mandatory drugs tests and performance indicators for prisons (Publications)
Mandatory drugs testing of prisoners applies throughout England and Wales. Data from the 1995 pilot study in eight prisons show that the proportion testing positive for opiates or benzodiazepines rose
Anonymous HIV surveillance with risk-factor elicitation: at Perth (for men) and Cornton Vale (for women) prisons in Scotland (Publications)
434 male and 145 female prisoners were available to participate in cross-sectional, voluntary anonymous HIV surveillance (using saliva samples) with linked self-completion questionnaire at HMP (Her Ma