Panthera leo (Mammalia: Felidae) remains from the Gladysvale Cave, South Africa : scientific note

Our results to date therefore indicate that the body substance precautions system was as successful as category-specific isolation used with other standard infection control techniques in maintaining low rates of nosocomial infections and in controlling the dissemination of hospital strains of bacteria in our institution. Body substance precautions provided a satisfactory alternative to universal precautions and traditional isolation categories for the protection of health care workers against the risk of infection by blood-borne viruses.