Inactivation of and by ultraviolet-C.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Published: October 2022

We evaluated the ability of an ultraviolet-C (UV-C) room decontamination device to kill and . With an organic challenge (fetal calf serum), the UV-C device demonstrated the following log reductions for of 4.57 and for of 5.26 with direct line of sight, and log reductions for of 2.41 and for of 3.96 with indirect line of sight.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.214DOI Listing

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