{"id":4172,"date":"2020-02-10T14:59:36","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T22:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=4172"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:00:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T23:00:36","slug":"persistence-of-coronaviruses-on-inanimate-surfaces-and-its-inactivation-with-biocidal-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/persistence-of-coronaviruses-on-inanimate-surfaces-and-its-inactivation-with-biocidal-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and its inactivation with biocidal agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Authors conducted a literature review to determine the ability of coronaviruses to persist on inanimate objects, with potential applications for the current 2019-nCoV outbreak. Both SARS and MERS coronaviruses can persist on inanimate surfaces (fomites) for up to 9 days. They can be inactivated effectively by disinfection procedures with 62-71% ethanol, 0.5% hydrogen peroxide, or 0.1% sodium hypochlorite within one minute.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kampf et al. (Feb 6, 2020). Persistence of coronaviruses on inanimate surfaces and its inactivation with biocidal agents. J of Hosp Infect. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.01.022\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.jhin.2020.01.022<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authors conducted a literature review to determine the ability of coronaviruses to persist on inanimate objects, with potential applications for the current 2019-nCoV outbreak. Both SARS and MERS coronaviruses can persist on inanimate surfaces (fomites) for up to 9 days. They can be inactivated effectively by disinfection procedures with 62-71% ethanol, 0.5% hydrogen peroxide, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/02\/10\/persistence-of-coronaviruses-on-inanimate-surfaces-and-its-inactivation-with-biocidal-agents\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4173,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}