Update: Transmission of HIV Infection During Invasive Dental

Abstract:
[ARCHIVED] This report describes findings which strongly suggest a now deceased HIV-infected dentist in Florida infected a total of five of his patients. Previous reports from epidemiological investigations strongly suggested that three patients (described here as patients A, B, and C) became infected with HIV while receiving dental care from a dentist with AIDS. This report describes findings that suggest that HIV was transmitted to two additional patients (E and G). These two patients had no other confirmed exposures to HIV, had invasive procedures performed by the dentist, and are infected with HIV strains that are closely related genetically to the strains form the three previously reported patients and from the dentist. In addition, the report describes the epidemiologic and laboratory investigation of another HIV-infected patient of the dentist, who appears to have been infected elsewhere. Another HIV-infected patient of the dentist (patient D) is believed to have contracted the virus from IV drug use.

Publication: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), Vol. 40, pp. 377-380


Date Published: 6/14/1991

Pages: 3

Location Code: 14021