Table 1.

Effectiveness of clinical disinfectants on HPV virions

Disinfectant	Native virion (log10 reduction)	±SD	Quasivirion (log10 reduction)	±SD
70% Ethanol	−0.789	0.106	0.197	0.530
95% Ethanol	−0.076	0.481	0.307	0.123
70% Isopropanol	−0.770	0.186	4.675	0.415
95% Isopropanol	−0.272	0.023	4.435	0.196
2.4% GTA	−0.856	0.179	−0.041	0.014
3.4% GTA	−0.306	0.232	−0.145	0.232
0.55% OPA	0.017	0.200	0.109	0.180
Phenol	−0.319	0.380	4.218	0.144
0.25% PAA-silver	−0.857	0.195	1.359	0.408
1.2% PAA-silver	5.150	0.971	4.946	0.548
0.525% Hypochlorite	4.862	0.623	5.087	0.413

All tests were performed at least five times and the averages are shown.