Ultraviolet-based biophotonic technologies for control and prevention of COVID-19, SARS and related disorders

• The COVID-19 pandemic led to a global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), physicians, negative pressure rooms, and hospital beds. • UV strategies have been developed to extend the lifespan of medical equipment as well as disinfect environmental surfaces. • Regulatory mechanisms to spe...

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Autor principal: Nogueira, Marcelo Saito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32585400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101890
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description • The COVID-19 pandemic led to a global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), physicians, negative pressure rooms, and hospital beds. • UV strategies have been developed to extend the lifespan of medical equipment as well as disinfect environmental surfaces. • Regulatory mechanisms to speed up development and approval of technologies and medicines against COVID-19 have been issued. • Opportunities to scale the production of UV devices for microbial inactivation are vast. • Development of reliable and safe technology to ensure the safety of healthcare workers and contain the virus spreading is the main priority.
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spelling pubmed-73080212020-06-23 Ultraviolet-based biophotonic technologies for control and prevention of COVID-19, SARS and related disorders Nogueira, Marcelo Saito Photodiagnosis Photodyn Ther Letter to the Editor • The COVID-19 pandemic led to a global shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), physicians, negative pressure rooms, and hospital beds. • UV strategies have been developed to extend the lifespan of medical equipment as well as disinfect environmental surfaces. • Regulatory mechanisms to speed up development and approval of technologies and medicines against COVID-19 have been issued. • Opportunities to scale the production of UV devices for microbial inactivation are vast. • Development of reliable and safe technology to ensure the safety of healthcare workers and contain the virus spreading is the main priority. Elsevier B.V. 2020-09 2020-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7308021/ /pubmed/32585400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101890 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full_unstemmed Ultraviolet-based biophotonic technologies for control and prevention of COVID-19, SARS and related disorders
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7308021/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32585400
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pdpdt.2020.101890
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