Assessing viral transfer during doffing of Ebola-level personal protective equipment in a biocontainment unit
Clinical Infectious Diseases Mar 21, 2018
Casanova LM, et al. - Researchers here searched for contamination of skin, gloves, and scrubs after doffing Ebola-level Personal protective equipment (PPE) contaminated with surrogate viruses: bacteriophages MS2 and Φ6. They noted that structured, observed doffing using alcohol-based hand rub (ABHR) protected against hand contamination with enveloped virus among experienced healthcare workers (HCWs). On hands and scrubs, nonenveloped virus was infrequent but it was common on inner gloves, suggesting that inner gloves, but not necessarily ABHR, protect against hand contamination. Findings suggested reinforcing careful handling of scrubs and good glove/hand hygiene with effective agents for optimizing doffing protocols to protect against all types of viruses.
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