{"id":5525,"date":"2020-03-30T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T23:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5525"},"modified":"2021-03-02T16:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T00:34:31","slug":"hydrogen-peroxide-vapor-sterilization-of-n95-respirators-for-reuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/30\/hydrogen-peroxide-vapor-sterilization-of-n95-respirators-for-reuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor sterilization of N95 respirators for reuse."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kenney et al evaluated the virucidal activity of hydrogen peroxide (HP) vapor to sterilize N95 respirators for reuse. A single HP vapor cycle resulted in complete eradication of phage from masks (limit of detection 10 PFU, lower than the infectious dose of the majority of respiratory viral pathogens). After 5 cycles, the respirators appeared similar to new with no deformity. HP vapor reprocessing may ease shortages and provide a higher filtration crisis alternative to non-NIOSH masks.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kenney et al. (Mar 27, 2020). Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor sterilization of N95 respirators for reuse. Pre-print downloaded Mar 30th, 2020 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.24.20041087\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.03.24.20041087<\/span><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenney et al evaluated the virucidal activity of hydrogen peroxide (HP) vapor to sterilize N95 respirators for reuse. A single HP vapor cycle resulted in complete eradication of phage from masks (limit of detection 10 PFU, lower than the infectious dose of the majority of respiratory viral pathogens). After 5 cycles, the respirators appeared similar&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/30\/hydrogen-peroxide-vapor-sterilization-of-n95-respirators-for-reuse\/\">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-5525","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\/5525","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=5525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5526,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5525\/revisions\/5526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5525"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}