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

Pfaender, Stephanie
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Helfritz, Fabian A
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Siddharta, Anindya
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Behrendt, Patrick
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Heyden, Julia
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Riebesehl, Nina
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Willmann, Wiebke
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Steinmann, Joerg
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Münch, Jan
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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 body fluids seems to be rare. Several body fluids, e.g., tears and saliva, are renowned for their antimicrobial and antiviral properties, nevertheless, HCV stability has never been systematically analyzed in those fluids.
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TWINCORE, Zentrum für experimentelle und klinischeInfektionsforschung GmbH, Feodor-Lynen-Str. 7, 30625 Hannover, Germany.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10033/621452
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10.3389/fmicb.2018.00504
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