Chicago Tribune (CT) - SATURDAY, June 24, 1995 Edition: NORTH SPORTS FINAL Section: NEWS Page: 4 Word Count: 189
Most people who think they may be at risk of AIDS have two tests, one six months after the first, because the HIV virus that causes AIDS can sometimes hide quietly in the body.
But Dr. Jean-Jacques Lefrere and colleagues at the National Blood Transfusion Institute in Paris said they had treated a woman who did not test positive for HIV until eight months after she was exposed.
Their experience was recounted in the current Lancet, the British medical journal. The doctors recommend revising guidelines for AIDS testing so that people get a blood test eight months to a year after being pricked by a needle that may have been contaminated with HIV.
Many doctors recommend tests at three and six months.
The woman, a cleaner at a hospital, accidentally pricked herself with an infected needle. She was tested immediately.
But two months after a second test at six months, she began showing symptoms of AIDS. Another test then was positive.
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