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[A simple and rapid method to test the permeability of condoms to viruses]
D Beytout1, M Chambon, H Laveran
1Service d'Hygiène hospitalière, Faculté de Médecine, Clermont-Ferrand Cedex.
Presse Medicale (Paris, France : 1983)
|October 14, 1989
Abstract:
phi x 174 and T7 coliphages can be used to find out if condoms are virus-proof. Protection against hepatitis B virus or papillomavirus contamination is not assured when T7, a 65 nm broad virus, leaks through the condom. The simple test can be used to establish a quality control norm for condoms.