Lookback investigation of patients potentially exposed to HIV type 1 after a nurse-to-patient transmission.
A nurse-to-patient transmission of HIV type 1 was recently documented in a French hospital. The origin of the transmission remained unclear. To inform patients who may have been exposed to the nurse while they had received care, a lookback investigation that included mailings and a viral screening was conducted for 7580 patients. No other case of nurse-to-patient transmission of HIV-1 was identified.
Astagneau
Pascal
P
Inter-regional Center for Nosocomial Infection Control, Institut des Cordeliers, C-CLIN Paris Nord, 15 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine, 75006 Paris, France.
Lot
Florence
F
Bouvet
Elisabeth
E
Lebascle
Karine
K
Baffoy
Nadège
N
Aggoune
Michèle
M
Brücker
Gilles
G
D016358:Contact Tracing; D005260:Female; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D015497:HIV-1; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D017757:Infectious Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient; D008875:Middle Aged