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Data Supporting Effects Of Uv-C Disinfection On N95 And Kn95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Reuse, Castine A. Bernardy, James Malley
Data Supporting Effects Of Uv-C Disinfection On N95 And Kn95 Filtering Facepiece Respirator Reuse, Castine A. Bernardy, James Malley
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UV is a proven decontamination tool for microbial pathogens, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Lower log inactivation was observed on FFRs than would have been predicted by aqueous-based UV dose-response data for MS-2 bacteriophage and E. coli. Results have demonstrated that FFR materials yield varying results in terms of effective disinfection in experiments conducted on KN95 and N95 face respirators. The highest inactivation for both surrogates was observed with respirator KN95 B. The respirator yielded 3 and 2.75 log inactivation for E. coli and MS-2, respectively at UV doses of 1500 mJ/cm2. KN95 A yielded the lowest …