Viricidal Activity of Open Air

Overview

Journal J Hyg (Lond)

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Specialty Public Health

Date 1971 Dec 1

PMID 4944178

Citations 13

Authors

J E Benbough

A M Hood

Affiliations

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Abstract

Airborne Semliki Forest virus and T coliphages were inactivated at a considerably enhanced rate in open air compared with enclosed air. Open air exerts its maximum sterilizing activity on viruses contained in the smallest sized particles.

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