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cord-284791-bgodmbru	Whitworth, Carrie	Persistence of Bacteriophage Phi 6 on Porous and Nonporous Surfaces and the Potential for Its Use as an Ebola Virus or Coronavirus Surrogate	2020-08-18		.txt	text/plain	5152	250	55	The persistence of phi 6 was evaluated as a surrogate for Ebola virus (EBOV) and coronaviruses on porous and nonporous hospital surfaces. Under these laboratory-simulated Western indoor hospital conditions, we assessed the suitability of phi 6 as a surrogate for environmental persistence research related to enveloped viruses, including EBOV and coronaviruses. This study evaluated the persistence of phi 6 in the presence of artificial test soil (ATS) as a potential surrogate for EBOV or coronaviruses at two absolute humidity (AH) conditions on four potential fomites: nonporous stainless steel (SS) and plastic (PL) and two types of porous hospital curtain fabrics. found that the Phi 6 was shown here in the current study to be a conservative surrogate for EBOV in a laboratory-simulated Western hospital room condition of 3.0 g/m 3 AH, persisting longer than the Makona-C05 variant (AH ϭ 3.3 g/m 3 ), with decay rates of 0.06 log 10 /d and 0.79 log 10 /h, respectively (Table 1 ).	./cache/cord-284791-bgodmbru.txt	./txt/cord-284791-bgodmbru.txt