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Degradation of Chemical Warfare Agent Nitrogen Mustard Using Ferrate (VI)

Toxics, 2023
Chemical warfare agents (CWAs) are one of the most toxic compounds. Degradation of CWAs using decontamination agents is one of the few ways to protect human health against the harmful effects of CWAs. A ferrate (VI)-based potential chemical warfare agent
Miroslav Labaška, Miroslav Gál, Tomáš Mackuľak   +2 more
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Decontamination of High-Efficiency Mask Filters From Respiratory Pathogens Including SARS-CoV-2 by Non-thermal Plasma

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022
The current pandemic resulted in a rapidly increasing demand for personal protective equipment (PPE) initially leading to severe shortages of these items.
Klára Obrová, Eva Vaňková, Michal Sláma, Jan Hodek, Josef Khun, Lucie Ulrychová, Lucie Ulrychová, Filomena Nogueira, Triin Laos, Isabella Sponseiler, Petra Kašparová, Anna Machková, Jan Weber, Vladimír Scholtz, Thomas Lion, Thomas Lion   +15 more
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The use of germicidal ultraviolet light, vaporised hydrogen peroxide and dry heat to decontaminate face masks and filtering respirators contaminated with an infectious norovirus

Infection Prevention in Practice, 2021
Summary: In the context of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, reuse of surgical masks and filtering facepiece respirators has been recommended. Their reuse necessitates procedures to inactivate contaminating human respiratory and oral pathogens.
Constance Wielick, Louisa F. Ludwig-Begall, Lorène Dams, Ravo M. Razafimahefa, Pierre-Francois Demeuldre, Aurore Napp, Jan Laperre, Olivier Jolois, Frédéric Farnir, Eric Haubruge, Etienne Thiry   +10 more
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Rapid and Highly Sensitive Detection of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Abnormal Prion Protein on Steel Surfaces by Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification: Application to Prion Decontamination Studies. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The prevalence of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the population remains uncertain, although it has been estimated that 1 in 2000 people in the United Kingdom are positive for abnormal prion protein (PrPTSE) by a recent survey of archived ...
Maxime Belondrade, Simon Nicot, Vincent Béringue, Joliette Coste, Sylvain Lehmann, Daisy Bougard   +5 more
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Carbon nanotube based magnetic composites for decontamination of organic chemical pollutants in water: A review

Applied Surface Science Advances, 2022
Contamination of water by organic chemical pollutants is one of the most critical environmental problems today as these are harmful to human beings and the aquatic ecosystem.
Nityananda Agasti, Vinay Gautam, Priyanka, Manju, Nilesh Pandey, Mahaveer Genwa, P. L. Meena, Sanjay Tandon, Raghabendra Samantaray   +8 more
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A controlled cross-over study to evaluate the efficacy of improvised dry and wet emergency decontamination protocols for chemical incidents.

PLoS ONE, 2020
The UK Initial Operational Response (IOR) to chemical incidents includes improvised decontamination procedures, which use readily available materials to rapidly reduce risk to potentially exposed persons.
Felicity Southworth, Thomas James, Louise Davidson, Natalie Williams, Thomas Finnie, Tim Marczylo, Samuel Collins, Richard Amlôt   +7 more
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Correlation between Bioassay and Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification for Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Decontamination Studies

mSphere, 2020
To date, approximately 500 iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases have been reported worldwide, most of them resulting from cadaveric dura mater graft and from the administration of prion-contaminated human growth hormone.
Maxime Bélondrade, Christelle Jas-Duval, Simon Nicot, Lilian Bruyère-Ostells, Charly Mayran, Laetitia Herzog, Fabienne Reine, Juan Maria Torres, Chantal Fournier-Wirth, Vincent Béringue, Sylvain Lehmann, Daisy Bougard   +11 more
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Team experience of nasopharyngeal samples reception, decontamination, and sorting during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020) at Institut Pasteur Côte d’Ivoire

Journal of Biosafety and Biosecurity, 2021
Molecular testing sensitivity, which allows for early diagnosis of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), could be affected by sample quality, storage, and transportation timeframe to the laboratory, along with bias related to the pre-analytic phase ...
Kouamé Innocent Kolia, Kipré Bertin Guédé, Kan Stéphane Kouassi, Koby Albert Obro, Kpadraux Danielle Odegue, Sylvie Mireil Sina-Kouaméle, Banga Victor Yepri, Mireille Dosso   +7 more
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Effects of residual H2O2 on the growth of MSCs after decontamination

Regenerative Therapy, 2018
Introduction: Regenerative therapy is a developing field in medicine. In the production of cell products for these therapies, hygienic management is even more critical than in the production of a chemical drug. At the same time, however, care is required
Riri Chihara, Hideki Kitajima, Yuuki Ogawa, Hiroaki Nakamura, Shozo Tsutsui, Manabu Mizutani, Masahiro Kino-oka, Sachikon Ezoe   +7 more
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Removal of Contaminant DNA by Combined UV-EMA Treatment Allows Low Copy Number Detection of Clinically Relevant Bacteria Using Pan-Bacterial Real-Time PCR. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
More than two decades after its discovery, contaminant microbial DNA in PCR reagents continues to impact the sensitivity and integrity of broad-range PCR diagnostic techniques.
Bruce Humphrey, Neil McLeod, Carrie Turner, J Mark Sutton, Paul M Dark, Geoffrey Warhurst   +5 more
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