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  1. Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Tom Bourne & Luke Phillips

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Luke Phillips

  3. The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

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  1. Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

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  2. Rheumatology, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Sharmayne Brady

  3. General Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

    Ar Kar Aung

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Bourne, T., Phillips, L. (2023). Injecting Drug Use and Sepsis. In: Junckerstorff, R., Brady, S., Aung, A.K. (eds) Beyond Evidence-Based Medicine. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4440-8_51

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