{"id":6631,"date":"2020-05-05T15:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T22:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2021-03-16T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T22:02:34","slug":"effectiveness-of-ultraviolet-c-light-and-a-high-level-disinfection-cabinet-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/05\/effectiveness-of-ultraviolet-c-light-and-a-high-level-disinfection-cabinet-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness of Ultraviolet-C Light and a High-Level Disinfection Cabinet for Decontamination of N95 Respirators"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Cadnum<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. compared three decontamination methods for use on N95 respirator masks (n=3). A high-level disinfection cabinet that generates aerosolized\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">peracetic<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0acid and hydrogen peroxide achieved disinfection with a 31-minute cycle. Ultraviolet-C light reduced contamination but did not meet pre-defined criteria for decontamination of the viruses (6 log<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">10<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0reductions). Dry heat at 70<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00b0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0C for 30 minutes was not effective for decontamination.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cadnum<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (May 2, 2020). Effectiveness of Ultraviolet-C Light and a High-Level Disinfection Cabinet for Decontamination of N95 Respirators. Pathogens &amp; Immunity.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20411\/pai.v5i1.372\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20411\/pai.v5i1.372<\/span><\/i><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cadnum\u00a0et al. compared three decontamination methods for use on N95 respirator masks (n=3). A high-level disinfection cabinet that generates aerosolized\u00a0peracetic\u00a0acid and hydrogen peroxide achieved disinfection with a 31-minute cycle. Ultraviolet-C light reduced contamination but did not meet pre-defined criteria for decontamination of the viruses (6 log10\u00a0reductions). Dry heat at 70\u00b0\u00a0C for 30 minutes was not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/05\/effectiveness-of-ultraviolet-c-light-and-a-high-level-disinfection-cabinet-for-decontamination-of-n95-respirators\/\">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":[22],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-non-pharmaceutical-interventions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","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=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6632,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}