Elijah Painstil, MD, from the Department of Pediatrics the Department of Pharmacology, Yale School of
Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues published their microculture assay results online November 23 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. They designed their study to mimic the natural events that might lead to the transmission of HCV, using a genetically modified HCV laboratory clone that was derived from a genotype 2a virus.