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2019-03-01
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Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a blood-borne virus and is most frequently transmitted through large or repeated direct percutaneous exposures to infected blood. The 2 most common exposures associated with transmission of HCV are blood transfusion and intravenous drug abuse. The association between HCV transmission and other suspected risk factors such as tattooing is more controversial. Although HCV can survive for days to weeks in suspension or on inanimate surfaces, its stability in tattooing supplies remains elusive. Here, we analyzed the influence of tattoo ink on HCV infectiousness.Citation
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Feb 13;6(3):ofz047. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz047. eCollection 2019 Mar.Affiliation
TWINCORE, Zentrum für experimentelle und klinische Infektionsforschung GmbH, Feodor-Lynen-Str.7,30625 Hannover, Germany.Publisher
Oxford AcademicJournal
Open Forum Infectious diseasesPubMed ID
30882013Type
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enISSN
2328-8957ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/ofid/ofz047
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