Use of a Mixture of Surrogates for Infectious Bioagents in a Standard Approach to Assessing Disinfection of Environmental Surfaces
2010
Sabbah, Safaa | Springthorpe, Susan | Sattar, Syed A.
We used a mixture of surrogates (Acinetobacter baumannii, Mycobacterium terrae, hepatitis A virus, and spores of Geobacillus stearothermophilus) for bioagents in a standardized approach to test environmental surface disinfectants. Each carrier containing 10 μl of mixture received 50 μl of a test chemical or saline at 22 ± 2°C. Disinfectant efficacy criteria were ≥6 log₁₀ reduction for the bacteria and the spores and ≥3 log₁₀ reduction for the virus. Peracetic acid (1,000 ppm) was effective in 5 min against the two bacteria and the spores but not against the virus. Chlorine dioxide (CD; 500 and 1,000 ppm) and domestic bleach (DB; 2,500, 3,500, and 5,000 ppm) were effective in 5 min, except for sporicidal activity, which needed 20 min of contact with either 1,000 ppm of CD or the two higher concentrations of DB.
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