In the contact lens practice, potential sources of HIV are both the tears and contact lenses. Human immunodeficiency virus has been isolated from both the tears of AIDS patients and from high water content lenses worn by AIDS patients. To date, there has been no documented transmission of the HIV virus from either tears or contact lenses.
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Slonim, C. B. (1996). AIDS and contact lenses. Ophthalmology Clinics of North America, 9(1), 137–140. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-21758-4_25
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