Survival of influenza A virus on contaminated student clothing

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine
Keiko IkedaAugustine Hajime Koyama

Abstract

The role of contaminated clothing in the transmission of influenza A virus during an epidemic period was investigated by examining the recovery of infectious influenza virus from experimentally virus-contaminated clothing, which had been subejected to routine wearing and washing for several months or years. The amount of infectious virus recovered from the nine types of clothing decreased with time and was shown to differ widely between clothing samples, when the contaminated clothing samples were maintained in uncovered glass Petri dishes in a safety cabinet under air blowing. These results indicate a dependence of virus transmissibility on the nature of the contaminated clothes. The difference in recovery was shown to have no significant correlation with the thickness or the materials of the clothing; however, a correlation was observed with the residual amount of water in the deposited virus preparation on the test clothing.

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Mar 25, 2011·Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine·Hiroko SakaguchiYoshiharu Aizawa
Mar 1, 2010·Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine·Keiko IkedaTsutomu Arakawa
Nov 1, 2010·Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine·Misao UozakiA Hajime Koyama
Oct 9, 2012·International Journal of Molecular Medicine·Keiko IkedaA Hajime Koyama

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