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Virologic characterization of primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection in a health care worker following needlestick injury.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 1 Sept 1995
Pratt R D, Shapiro J F, McKinney N, Kwok S, Spector S A
Abstract excerpt
A health care worker (HCW) was infected via needlestick with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1 from a subject with AIDS who harbored a zidovudine-resistant, syncytium-inducing (SI) HIV strain. The phenotypic characteristics of the HIV-1 isolates obtained from the HCW and markers of virus load were followed for 20 months. Although the HCW was initially infected with an SI strain, within 75 days of...
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