An adult film actor who tested positive for HIV is calling for mandatory condom use in porn films and better health monitoring for performers.

Derrick Burts, 24, identified himself to the Los Angeles Times as the performer who tested positive at the Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation in Sherman Oaks in October. He had previously been known as Patient Zeta.

Burts, who performed in straight films as Cameron Reid and gay films as Derek Chambers, described the panicked call he got from clinic staff on Oct. 9 about the infection that sent fears through California's adult industry.

Burts said he believed he may have contracted the disease during a gay porn shoot in Florida.

Despite Burts' account of what he was told, clinic officials released a statement last month that said "Patient Zeta acquired the virus through private, personal activity."

"That's completely false," Burts told the Times. "There is no possible way. The only person I had sex with in my personal life was my girlfriend," he said.

An e-mail to the Adult Industry Healthcare Foundation seeking comment late Tuesday was not immediately returned.

Burts said the clinic promised to put him in touch with a doctor affiliated with the clinic and vowed to arrange for his follow-up care. But no one called him back and when he contacted the clinic, he received no response for two months, Burts said.

In frustration, he said he went to an AIDS Healthcare Foundation center in Los Angeles on Nov. 24 but didn't identify himself as Patient Zeta.

Burts said he was pleased with the care he received there and contacted the head of the organization last week and identified himself as Patient Zeta. He said he wanted to speak out in favor of enforcing mandatory condom use in porn productions.

He now said he wishes he had known more about the risks of contracting sexually transmitted diseases in the industry.

"Making $10,000 or $15,000 for porn isn't worth your life," he told the Times. "Performers need to be educated."