Environmental Stability and Infectivity of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Different Human Body Fluids

Environmental Stability and Infectivity of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Different Human Body Fluids

Background: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a hepatotropic, blood-borne virus, but in up to one-third of infections of the transmission route remained unidentified. Viral genome copies of HCV have been identified in several body fluids, however, non-parental transmission upon exposure to contaminated bod...

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Main Authors: Stephanie Pfaender, Fabian A. Helfritz, Anindya Siddharta, Daniel Todt, Patrick Behrendt, Julia Heyden, Nina Riebesehl, Wiebke Willmann, Joerg Steinmann, Jan Münch, Sandra Ciesek, Eike Steinmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
hepatitis C virus
infectivity
saliva
semen
tear
contact lens solution
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2018.00504/full

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