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ArticlePhotodermatology, photoimmunology & photomedicine2020

The importance of the minimum dosage necessary for UVC decontamination of N95 respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Shanthi Narla, Alexis B Lyons, Indermeet Kohli, Angeli E Torres, Angela Parks-Miller, David M Ozog, Iltefat H Hamzavi, Henry W Lim

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Article in Photodermatology, photoimmunology & photomedicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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  3. Pollution free UV-C radiation to mitigate COVID-19 transmission.Gondwana research : international geoscience journal · 2023
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  12. Best Practices for Germicidal Ultraviolet-C Dose Measurement for N95 Respirator Decontamination.Journal of research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology · 2021
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  15. The effect of ultraviolet C radiation against different N95 respirators inoculated with SARS-CoV-2.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2020
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  16. Spectrum of virucidal activity from ultraviolet to infrared radiation.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2020
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  20. Ultraviolet-C and other methods of decontamination of filtering facepiece N-95 respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Shanthi NarlaPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0228-3262
Alexis B LyonsPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0799-5680
Indermeet KohliPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2316-6375
Angeli E TorresPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9551-2118
Angela Parks-MillerPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5605-5842
David M OzogPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8479-6736
Iltefat H HamzaviPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3137-5601
Henry W LimPhotomedicine and Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1576-1115

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Coronavirus InfectionsInfluenza, HumanPandemicsPneumonia, ViralBetacoronavirusCOVID-19DecontaminationHumansSARS-CoV-2coronavirusesCOVID-19dosagefiltering facepiece respiratorsN95pandemicreuserisk mitigationSARS-CoV-2ultraviolet C

Identifiers

PMID32291807
PMCPMC7262176

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