Infection-Control Guidelines for Patients with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

Abstract

A task force* at the University of California, San Francisco, has developed infection-control guidelines for patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The task force included representatives of the University of California, San Francisco, and the city and county of San Francisco; administrators from various San Francisco hospitals; and other health-care workers with a special interest in AIDS. It also considered guidelines that had been developed by the infection-control committees at both University of California Moffitt Hospital† and San Francisco General Hospital.‡The purpose of this report is to present the findings of the task force and, recognizing that a . . .