Assessing risks of human immunodeficiency virus transmission by human bite injuries [35]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 2538-2539

  Smoot, E Clyde ^a,c   Choucino, Carlos M ^b   Smoot, Margaret Z ^c  

^a Plastic Surgery Associates of Southwest Louisiana   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

BITE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJURY; LETTER; MALAISE; MOUTH HYGIENE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; SALIVA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIROLOGY;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; BITES, HUMAN; CHEMOPREVENTION; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33745331945     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000219991.22903.eb     Document Type: Letter

References (5)

1. (No authors listed.) To transmit HIV, biter must have blood in the mouth. AIDS Policy Law 11: 5.
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3. Figueiredo, J. F., Borges, A. S., Martinez, R., et al. Transmission of hepatitis C virus, but not human immunodeficiency virus type 1 by a human bite. Clin. Infect. Dis. 19: 546, 1994.
4. Smith, D. K., Grohskopf, L. A., Black, R. J., et al. Antiretroviral postexposure prophylaxis after sexual, injection-drug use, or other nonoccupational exposure to HIV in the United States: Recommendations from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Morb. Mort. Wkly. Rep. 54: 1, 2005.
5. Gerberding, J. L. Occupational exposure to HIV in health care settings. N. Engl. J. Med. 348: 826, 2003.