Patterns of Infectious Disease Associated With Injection Drug Use in Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since 2014, multiple outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) among people who inject drugs have occurred across the United States along with hepatitis C virus (HCV), skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs), and infective endocarditis (IE), creating a converging public health crisis.

Methods

We analyzed the temporal patterns of infectious disease and overdose using a hierarchical Bayesian distributed lag logistic regression model examining the probability that a given geographic area experienced at least 1 HIV case in a given month as a function of the counts/rates of overdose, HCV, SSTI, and IE and associated medical procedures at different lagged time periods.

Results

Current-month HIV is associated with increasing HCV cases, abscess incision and d

SUBMITTER: Gonsalves GS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10273381 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature