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Comparative inactivation of enteroviruses and adenovirus 2 by UV light
Charles P Gerba1, Dawn M Gramos, Nena Nwachuku
1Department of Soil, Water, and Environmental Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA. gerba@ag.arizona.edu
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|September 27, 2002
Abstract:
The doses of UV irradiation necessary to inactivate selected enteric viruses on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Contaminant Candidate List were determined. Three-log reductions of echovirus 1, echovirus 11, coxsackievirus B3, coxsackievirus B5, poliovirus 1, and human adenovirus type 2 were effected by doses of 25, 20.5, 24.5, 27, 23, and 119 mW/cm(2), respectively. Human adenovirus type 2 is the most UV light-resistant enteric virus reported to date.