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. 2011 May 24;46(11):2326–2332. doi: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2011.05.015

Table 1.

UV rate constant for representative airborne viruses and microbes.

Microbe UV rate constant [m2/J] Reference
Virus Coronavirus 0.377 Walker et al., 2007 [20]
Influenza A 0.27 McDevitt et al. [21]
Bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis 0.472 Riley et al., 1976 [22]
Staphylococcos aureus 0.960 Luckiesh et al., 1949 [23]
Fungi Aspergillus niger 0.00058
Cladosporium herbarum 0.0037