Jackson M M, Lynch P
Todays OR Nurse. 1989 Oct;11(10):8-14.
Although hepatitis B virus and HIV are similar, they are not transmitted with equal ease; the blood of persons with HIV has fewer infectious particles, which reduces the likelihood of transmitting the virus from average exposures. At present, the number of health-care workers who have developed AIDS as a result of occupational exposure is so small that it is statistically undetectable in a large mass of cases. The guiding principle in developing new surgical techniques must be the assumption that the blood of any patient, regardless of diagnosis, may contain infectious agents. Stress should be placed on altering behavior and techniques to reduce infectious risks to health-care workers from contact with blood rather than on identifying patients with HIV.
尽管乙肝病毒和艾滋病毒相似，但它们的传播难易程度并不相同；艾滋病毒感染者的血液中感染性颗粒较少，这降低了因一般接触而传播病毒的可能性。目前，因职业暴露而感染艾滋病的医护人员数量极少，以至于在大量病例中从统计学角度无法检测到。开发新手术技术的指导原则必须是假定任何患者的血液，无论诊断结果如何，都可能含有感染源。应强调改变行为和技术以降低医护人员因接触血液而面临的感染风险，而不是识别艾滋病毒感染者。
