TY - JOUR AU - Datta, Sibnarayan AU - Banerjee, Arup AU - Chandra, Partha K. AU - Mahapatra, Pradip K. AU - Chakrabarti, Shekhar AU - Chakravarty, Runu T1 - Drug Trafficking Routes and Hepatitis B in Injection Drug Users, Manipur, India T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2006 VL - 12 IS - 12 SP - 1954 SN - 1080-6059 AB - Prevalence of hepatitis B genotype C in injection drug users in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur, neighboring the "Golden Triangle," correlates well with overland drug-trafficking routes, the injection drug use epidemic, and the spread of HIV. Further spread to other regions of India through mobile populations is possible. KW - Hepatitis B virus KW - injection drug use KW - occult hepatitis B infection KW - genotype C KW - Manipur KW - India KW - Dispatch DO - 10.3201/eid1212.060425 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/06-0425_article ER - End of Reference