"Stability of a Hepatitis C Virus Surrogate (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Virus) to Temperature, UV Light and a Range of Disinfectants."

According to an abstract submitted by the authors to the First Australasian Conference on Hepatitis C, held March 16-18, 1997, in Sydney, Australia, "The possibility of transmitting Hepatitis C virus (HCV) through accidental exposure to contaminated surfaces, equipment or biological material is of concern to healthcare workers and others who have contact with HCV carriers such as injecting drug users (IDU). Accordingly, the survival of HCV under laboratory and environmental conditions, and methods to inactivate the virus are important areas of investigation. Using bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) as an HCV surrogate, we investigated the survivability of this virus when stored at...

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