Recovery of HIV at Autopsy

Keith Henry; David Dexter; Kim Sannerud; Brooks Jackson; Henry Balfour

doi:10.1056/NEJM198912283212614

Recovery of HIV at Autopsy

Keith Henry, David Dexter, Kim Sannerud, Brooks Jackson, Henry Balfour

Laboratory Medicine and Pathology

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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…

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1833-1834
Number of pages	2
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	321
Issue number	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198912283212614
State	Published - Dec 28 1989

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