Recommended Infection-Control Policies for Patients with Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection

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Abstract
Efforts to contain the epidemic of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) have concentrated on preventing the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV, or HTLV-III/LAV), since neither curative therapies nor vaccination is likely to become available in the near future. Infection control is a particularly important issue in the health care facility, where frequent and intensive exposure to infected patients may occur.Because of the identification of HIV as the causative agent in AIDS and the consequent development of culture techniques and serologic methods for detecting antibody to the virus, it is now possible to identify both symptomatic and asymptomatic infected . . .