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cord-271815-yr1dq258	Hulkower, Rachel L.	Inactivation of surrogate coronaviruses on hard surfaces by health care germicides	2011-06-30		.txt	text/plain	4178	222	47	Methods The efficacy of health care germicides against 2 surrogate coronaviruses, mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) and transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV), was tested using the quantitative carrier method on stainless steel surfaces. This study was undertaken using the carrier method to evaluate 6 chemical germicides commonly used in health care settings for their efficacy in reducing infectivity of coronaviruses on environmental surfaces. The efficacy of 6 hospital surface germicides was tested against 2 coronaviruses, MHV and TGEV, used as surrogates for SARS-CoV. 3, 15, 17, 24 The results of this study show that, of the commonly used hospital germicides tested, only the ethanol-based germicides were able to achieve this level of reduction of infectious virus after 1 minute of contact time. Studies of hospital germicide efficacy against adenovirus 8 using the same carrier-based method with 1-minute contact times found greater log 10 reduction factors by OPA (4.37) than were observed in this study for TGEV (2.27) and MHV (1.71).	./cache/cord-271815-yr1dq258.txt	./txt/cord-271815-yr1dq258.txt