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ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2010

Use of a mixture of surrogates for infectious bioagents in a standard approach to assessing disinfection of environmental surfaces.

Safaa Sabbah, Susan Springthorpe, Syed A Sattar

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Article in Applied and environmental microbiology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Safaa SabbahCentre for Research on Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5.
Susan Springthorpe
Syed A Sattar

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used a mixture of surrogates (Acinetobacter baumannii, Mycobacterium terrae, hepatitis A virus, and spores of Geobacillus stearothermophilus) for bioagents in a standardized approach to test environmental surface disinfectants. Each carrier containing 10 microl of mixture received 50 microl of a test chemical or saline at 22 +/- 2 degrees C. Disinfectant efficacy criteria were > or = 6 log(10) reduction for the bacteria and the spores and > or = 3 log(10) reduction for the virus. Peracetic acid (1,000 ppm) was effective in 5 min against the two bacteria and the spores but not against the virus. Chlorine dioxide (CD; 500 and 1,000 ppm) and domestic bleach (DB; 2,500, 3,500, and 5,000 ppm) were effective in 5 min, except for sporicidal activity, which needed 20 min of contact with either 1,000 ppm of CD or the two higher concentrations of DB.

Indexed as

Environmental MicrobiologyAcinetobacter baumanniiChlorine CompoundsDisinfectantsDisinfectionGeobacillus stearothermophilusHepatitis A virusMicrobial ViabilityNontuberculous MycobacteriaOxidesPeracetic AcidSodium HypochloriteSpores, BacterialTemperatureTime FactorsChlorine Compoundschlorine dioxideDisinfectantsOxidesPeracetic AcidSodium Hypochlorite

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PMID20639366
PMCPMC2935081

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