Modeling suggests that microliter volumes of contaminated blood caused an outbreak of hepatitis C during computerized tomography.
Eyal ShteyerLouis M ShekhtmanTal ZingerSheri HarariInna GafanovichDana WolfHefziba IvgiRima BarsukIlana DeryDaniela ArmoniMila RivkinRahul PipaliaMichal Cohen EliavYizhak SkorochodGabriel S BreuerRan Tur-KaspaYonit Weil WienerAdi SternScott J CotlerHarel DahariYoav LuriePublished in: PloS one (2019)
Analysis of this unique cohort provides a new understanding of HCV transmission with respect to contaminating volumes and viral titers.