| intravenous drug addicts: a high risk group for infection with human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis viruses, cytomegalo virus and bacterial infections in alexandria egypt. | in this work the seroprevalence of hiv, hbv, hcv and cmv were studied among two groups of population; ivda (intravenous drug addicts) (100) and control group (40). syphilis and other bacterial infections which may be encountered among ivda were also investigated. it was found that all serum samples (of both groups) were negative for anti-hiv. regarding hbv markers, the prevalence of hbc antibodies was significantly higher among ivda (62%) than the control group (27.5%). also hbsag was detected i ... | 1995 | 17214204 |