Failure of HIV postexposure prophylaxis after a work-related needlestick injury.

lieve, on the basis of our studies and those of others, that self-disinfecting surfaces such as copper are an important additional tool and a significant step forward in helping to reduce the potentially infection-causing microbial bioloads that exist on clinical surfaces. Indeed, we should ask the question, why select a nonantimicrobial surface when we now know that naturally occurring metals have this intrinsic antimicrobial activity?