Journal article
Recovery of HIV at Autopsy
The New England journal of medicine, Vol.321(26), pp.1833-1834
12/28/1989
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198912283212614
PMID: 2594045
Abstract
To the Editor:
The occupational risk among health care workers of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains an important issue.
1
2
3
This risk has been traditionally evaluated in terms of seroconversion among health care workers after inadvertent exposure to body fluids from patients.
4
5
Several reports have used postmortem HIV-antibody and p24-antigen testing for epidemiologic and diagnostic purposes.
6
7
8
To our knowledge, the viability of HIV after a patient's death, the key variable in assessing the actual risk to personnel engaged in prosection, has not been addressed in the medical literature. We report the recovery of HIV from a patient 18 . . .
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Recovery of HIV at Autopsy
- Creators
- Keith Henry - St. Paul–Ramsey Medical Center, St. Paul, MN 55101David Dexter - St. Paul–Ramsey Medical Center, St. Paul, MN 55101Kim Sannerud - University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics, Minneapolis, MN 55455Brooks Jackson - University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics, Minneapolis, MN 55455Henry Balfour - University of Minnesota Hospital and Clinics, Minneapolis, MN 55455
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The New England journal of medicine, Vol.321(26), pp.1833-1834
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- DOI
- 10.1056/NEJM198912283212614
- PMID
- 2594045
- ISSN
- 0028-4793
- eISSN
- 1533-4406
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/28/1989
- Academic Unit
- Pathology; VPMA - Administration
- Record Identifier
- 9984047886402771
Metrics
18 Record Views