The Ebola disinfection booth: evaluation of an enclosed ultraviolet light booth for disinfection of contaminated personal protective equipment prior to removal

Myreen E Tomas; Jennifer L Cadnum; Annette Jencson; Curtis J Donskey

doi:10.1017/ice.2015.166

The Ebola disinfection booth: evaluation of an enclosed ultraviolet light booth for disinfection of contaminated personal protective equipment prior to removal

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Oct;36(10):1226-8. doi: 10.1017/ice.2015.166. Epub 2015 Jul 20.

Authors

Myreen E Tomas¹, Jennifer L Cadnum², Annette Jencson³, Curtis J Donskey¹

Affiliations

¹ 1Geriatric Research,Education, and Clinical Center,Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center,Cleveland,Ohio.
² 2Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,Cleveland,Ohio.
³ 3Research Service,Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center,Cleveland,Ohio.

PMID: 26190268
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.166

Abstract

A portable booth designed to disinfect full-body coverage protective equipment before removal using ultraviolet-C radiation resulted in at least 3 log reductions in bacteriophage MS2 and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus within 3 minutes. The booth could be useful for disinfection of contaminated protective equipment before removal during care of Ebola patients.

Publication types

Evaluation Study
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

Disinfection / methods*
Equipment Contamination*
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola*
Humans
Levivirus / isolation & purification*
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
Personal Protective Equipment / microbiology*
Ultraviolet Rays*