Open AccessThe effect of ultraviolet C radiation against different N95 respirators inoculated with SARS-CoV-2
Author(s) -
David M. Ozog,
Jonathan Z. Sexton,
Shanthi Narla,
Carla D. Pretto,
Carmen Mirabelli,
Henry W. Lim,
Iltefat Hamzavi,
Robert Tibbetts,
QingSheng Mi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.278
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1878-3511
pISSN - 1201-9712
DOI - 10.1016/j.ijid.2020.08.077
Subject(s) - respirator , human decontamination , covid-19 , infectious dose , medicine , economic shortage , virology , materials science , virus , composite material , pathology , linguistics , philosophy , disease , government (linguistics) , infectious disease (medical specialty)
There are currently no studies that have examined whether one dosage can be uniformly applied to different respirator types to effectively decontaminate SARS-CoV-2 on N95 filtering facepiece respirators (FFRs). Health care workers have been using this disinfection method during the pandemic. Our objective was to determine the effect of UVC on SARS-CoV-2 inoculated N95 respirators and whether this was respirator material/model type dependent.
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