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INDOOR AIR
卷 32, 期 9, 页码 -出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ina.13115
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aerosol; Covid-19; decontamination; inactivation; SARS-CoV-2; UV-C
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- Ministerium fur Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Wurttemberg
Exposing aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 to a low dose of UV-C irradiation (0.42-0.51 mJ/cm(2) at 254 nm) resulted in more than 99.9% reduction in viral titers, demonstrating the high effectiveness of UV-C-based decontamination of aerosols in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infectivity.
Surface residing SARS-CoV-2 is efficiently inactivated by UV-C irradiation. This raises the question whether UV-C-based technologies are also suitable to decontaminate SARS-CoV-2- containing aerosols and which doses are needed to achieve inactivation. Here, we designed a test bench to generate aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 and exposed the aerosols to a defined UV-C dose. Our results demonstrate that the exposure of aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 with a low average dose in the order of 0.42-0.51 mJ/cm(2) UV-C at 254 nm resulted in more than 99.9% reduction in viral titers. Altogether, UV-C-based decontamination of aerosols seems highly effective to achieve a significant reduction in SARS-CoV-2 infectivity.
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