Open AccessBack Cover: Sanitizing agents for virus inactivation and disinfection (View 2/2020)
Author(s) -
Lin Qianyu,
Lim Jason Y. C.,
Xue Kun,
Yew Pek Yin Michelle,
Owh Cally,
Chee Pei Lin,
Loh Xian Jun
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2688-268X
pISSN - 2688-3988
DOI - 10.1002/viw2.31
Subject(s) - hand sanitizer , cover (algebra) , pandemic , virus , virology , covid-19 , human influenza , biology , medicine , engineering , food science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mechanical engineering , disease , pathology
In article number 16, Xian Jun Loh, Jason Y.C. Lim and co‐workers demonstrate that virus pandemics are recurrent in human history, and one of the major means of human‐to‐human viral transmissions occur through contact with contaminated surfaces. Herein, they provide a summary of the major commercially‐available sanitising agents used to inactivate viruses and critically evaluate their effectiveness to do so. This cover art shows the use of a typical sanitizer and how the contact of the sanitizers with a virus destroys it.