Open AccessSurvival of Hepatitis C Virus in Syringes: Implication for Transmission among Injection Drug Users
Author(s) -
Elijah Paintsil,
Huijie He,
Christopher M. Peters,
Brett D. Lindenbach,
Robert Heimer
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
the journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.69
H-Index - 252
eISSN - 1537-6613
pISSN - 0022-1899
DOI - 10.1086/656212
Subject(s) - virology , drug , transmission (telecommunications) , hepatitis c virus , medicine , virus , hepatitis b virus , hepatitis c , hepatitis virus , chemistry , pharmacology , computer science , telecommunications
We hypothesized that the high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) among injection drug users might be due to prolonged virus survival in contaminated syringes.
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