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ArticleAerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research2023

Impact of test methodology on the efficacy of triethylene glycol (Grignard Pure) against bacteriophage MS2.

Katherine M Ratliff, Lukas Oudejans, John Archer, Worth Calfee, Jerome U Gilberry, David Adam Hook, William E Schoppman, Robert W Yaga, Lance Brooks, Shawn Ryan

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Article in Aerosol science and technology : the journal of the American Association for Aerosol Research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Managing infectious aerosols to counter engineered pandemics: Current recommendations and future research.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025
    Guideline
  2. Inactivation of airborne pathogen surrogates by triethylene glycol.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026
    Article
  3. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine M RatliffCenter for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1410-2756
Lukas OudejansCenter for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7594-4394
John ArcherCenter for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0455-7204
Worth CalfeeCenter for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6544-329X
Jerome U GilberryJacobs Technology Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8228-9164
David Adam HookJacobs Technology Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
William E SchoppmanJacobs Technology Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Robert W YagaJacobs Technology Inc, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Lance BrooksCenter for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Shawn RyanCenter for Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.
Environmental Protection Agency · USJacobs (United States) · US

Funding

EPA 68HERC20D0018Intramural EPA EPA999999
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised interest in using chemical air treatments as part of a strategy to reduce the risk of disease transmission, but more information is needed to characterize their efficacy at scales translatable to applied settings and to develop standardized test methods for characterizing the performance of these products. Grignard Pure, a triethylene glycol (TEG) active ingredient air treatment, was evaluated using two different test protocols in a large bioaerosol test chamber and observed to inactivate bacteriophage MS2 in air (up to 99.9% at 90 min) and on surfaces (up to 99% at 90 min) at a concentration of approximately 1.2 - 1.5 mg/m

Identifiers

PMID38268721
PMCPMC10805242
OpenAlexW4387045371

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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