ArticleJournal of photochemistry and photobiology. B, Biology2021
Assessment of saliva interference with UV-based disinfection technologies.
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- Short-Wave Ultraviolet-Light-Based Disinfection of Surface Environment Using Light-Emitting Diodes: A New Approach to Prevent Health-Care-Associated Infections.Microorganisms · 2023Article
- Evaluating the impact of ultraviolet C exposure conditions on coliphage MS2 inactivation on surfaces.Letters in applied microbiology · 2022Article
- UV 254 nm is more efficient than UV 222 nm in inactivating SARS-CoV-2 present in human saliva.Photodiagnosis and photodynamic therapy · 2022Article
- Kinetics and Monte Carlo simulation of UV disinfection of B. subtilis spores and SARS-CoV-2 in dried saliva droplets.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Modeling the efficiency of UV at 254 nm for disinfecting the different layers within N95 respirators.Journal of biophotonics · 2021Article
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Abstract
Worldwide shortages of personal protective equipment during COVID-19 pandemic has forced the implementation of methods for decontaminating face piece respirators such as N95 respirators. The use of UV irradiation to reduce bioburden of used respirators attracts attention, making proper testing protocols of uttermost importance. Currently artificial saliva is used but its comparison to human saliva from the UV disinfection perspective is lacking. Here we characterize UV spectra of human and artificial saliva, both fresh and after settling, to test for possible interference for UV-based disinfection. ASTM 2720 artificial saliva recipe (with either porcine or bovine mucin) showed many discrepancies from average (N = 18) human saliva, with different mucins demonstrating very different UV absorbance spectra, resulting in very different UV transmittance at different wavelength. Reducing porcine mucin concentration from 3 to 1.7 g/L brought UVA
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