Meyer G S
General Internal Medicine Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
Arch Intern Med. 1993 Nov 8;153(21):2439-47.
The dangers of occupational infection (where the infectious agent was acquired during the provision or receipt of a medical service) have received renewed interest in the era of the human immunodeficiency virus. The dilemmas raised by this phenomenon, however, are far from novel and were the subject of considerable debate in the medical literature at the turn of the century with regard to syphilis. After recognition of the problem, it took time to manage syphilis effectively through technical innovation, personal prophylaxis, education, and regulation. These efforts led to the development of a strategy remarkably similar to that of the "universal precautions" approach applied to human immunodeficiency virus today.
职业感染（即在提供或接受医疗服务过程中感染病原体）的风险在人类免疫缺陷病毒时代再次受到关注。然而，这一现象引发的困境并非新鲜事，在世纪之交的医学文献中，梅毒就曾引发过大量讨论。认识到这个问题后，通过技术创新、个人预防、教育和监管来有效控制梅毒花了一些时间。这些努力促成了一种策略的形成，该策略与如今应用于人类免疫缺陷病毒的“普遍预防措施”极为相似。
