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William S. Sawchuk, MD; Richard P. Felten

Arch Dermatol. 1989;125(12):1689-1692.

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With increasing numbers of people showing human immunodeficiency virus-positive serologic findings, and with the continued inability to find a cure for this disease, has come a renewed awareness and concern among health care professionals for the transmission of infection from patient to health care provider. This renewed concern for potential infection of health care providers was heightened by the report from Garden et al¹ demonstrating the presence of intact papillomavirus DNA in the smoke plume generated during laser surgery. As reported in this issue of the ARCHIVES, Wentzell et al² elaborate on the physical properties of aerosols generated during dermabrasion and emphasize that particles are generated of a size that can access the pulmonary and mucosal surfaces. They also show that mathematical modeling is helpful in predicting particle size generated in the aerosols produced by these procedures. However, without knowledge of the infectivity of a given virus and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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6319 Castle Pl, 3D Falls Church, VA 22044; Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health Rockville, MD 20857

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