Fig. 3.

405 nm light inactivates HCVcc in plasma and platelets. (A) Plasma samples spiked with HCVcc and exposed to increasing doses of 405 nm violet-blue light. (B) Platelet samples spiked with HCVcc and exposed to increasing doses of 405 nm violet-blue light. Bars represent the means of individual donors; error bars represent standard error. Each dot represents an individual donor. No HCVcc titers were evaluated for exposed at time 0, the value for Unexposed at time 0 represents untreated samples. Statistical analysis was conducted using Mann–Whitney test. Significance levels are indicated as follows: *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.