HIV-1 Infection Puzzles Denmark

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HIV-1 Infection Puzzles Denmark

Lancet (12/13/97) Vol. 350, No. 9093, P. 1758
Skovmand, Kaare

Abstract: Danish health authorities are investigating what they believe could be the first patient-to-patient transmission of HIV-1 infection. The case involves a six-year-old girl who contracted HIV-1 while being treated for leukemia at an Aalborg hospital. The genetic fingerprint of the girl's virus is 97 percent similar to that of another HIV-infected child in the ward. Although it appears that the girl was infected by the other child, authorities do not know how the virus was contracted. All hospital procedures are reported to have been strictly followed, and infection via contaminated blood products has been ruled out. Hospital manager Jesper Christensen suggested that perhaps "one child bit the other during play," but no evidence of such action has been detected.

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