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How much blood is required to transmit HIV?

Dr Sandeep Saluja
Consultant in Medicine,
Saran Ashram, Dayalbagh (Agra)

Q: Does reused vacutainers after a gap of about five minutes transmit HIV? How much of blood is required for transmission of HIV?

A:There is no threshold value on the amount of blood required to transmit the infection. There is also no threshold on the time involved.