Methylene blue in combination with sunlight as a low cost and effective disinfection method for coronavirus-contaminated PPE

Using the Murine Hepatitis Virus (MHV) A59 coronavirus as a SARS-CoV-2 animal surrogate, we validated that methylene blue (MB) in combination with sunlight exposure is a robust, fast, and low-cost decontamination method for PPE that should be added to the toolbox of practical pandemic preparedness.

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Autores principales: Vos, Kevin A., Gordon, Paul M.K., Heyne, Belinda
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2022
Materias:
Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9329071/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35908830
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.02.019
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spelling pubmed-93290712022-07-28 Methylene blue in combination with sunlight as a low cost and effective disinfection method for coronavirus-contaminated PPE Vos, Kevin A. Gordon, Paul M.K. Heyne, Belinda Am J Infect Control Brief Report Using the Murine Hepatitis Virus (MHV) A59 coronavirus as a SARS-CoV-2 animal surrogate, we validated that methylene blue (MB) in combination with sunlight exposure is a robust, fast, and low-cost decontamination method for PPE that should be added to the toolbox of practical pandemic preparedness. Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 2022-08 2022-07-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9329071/ /pubmed/35908830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.02.019 Text en © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. 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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Methylene blue in combination with sunlight as a low cost and effective disinfection method for coronavirus-contaminated PPE
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title_full_unstemmed Methylene blue in combination with sunlight as a low cost and effective disinfection method for coronavirus-contaminated PPE
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