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. 1979 Apr;82(2):255–261. doi: 10.1017/s0022172400025675

The effect of relative humidity on swine vesicular disease virus in dried films before and during formaldehyde fumigation.

E Batty, Y L Farmer, A J Breame, W Bruce
PMCID: PMC2130149  PMID: 219108

Abstract

Swine Vesicular Disease virus (SVDV) did not survive drying at high relative humidities (r.h.) but there was little virus loss at low r.h. Purified virus dried in films was inactivated by formaldehyde fumigation only at high r.h. Inactivation was also influenced by the suspending medium from which the virus was dried. Purified virus resuspended in distilled water and then dried, was rapidly killed, but that in tissue culture fluid survived.

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