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Tear fluid of hepatitis C virus carriers could be infectious
H H Feucht1, B Zöllner, M Schröter
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie und Immunologie, Universitäts-Krankenhaus Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
For up to 20 to 40% of patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), the mode of transmission is still unknown. We demonstrate that tear fluid contains HCV RNA-carrying material with the properties of infectious virus and conclude that smear infection with tear fluid may play a role in HCV transmission.