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. 2020 Sep 4;164:105156. doi: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2020.105156

Table 1.

Viral abatement efficacy of Cl based disinfectants (with particular focus on coronavirus or surrogate coronavirus).

Cl based disinfectants Viral abatement Experimental medium Dose and effect Reference
Hypochlorite Canine coronavirus, mouse hepatitis virus Suspension Effective at 10 and 100 ppm concentration, contact period: 10 min Saknimit et al., 1988
SARS-CoV Wastewater Complete inactivation
At 10 mg l  1 Cl (FAC >0.4 mg l  1), contact period: 30 min
At 20 mg l  1 Cl, contact period: 1 min
SARS-CoV-2 Septic tank At 800–6700 g m  3, contact period 1.5 h Zhang et al., 2020
SARS-CoV surrogate (mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) and transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) Surface At 1:100 solution
0.35 log reduction in 1 min for TGEV
0.62 log reduction in 1 min for MHV
Hulkower et al., 2011
Human coronavirus 229E Surface 3 log reduction at a minimum free Cl level of 5000 ppm, contact time: 1 min Sattar et al., 1989
SARS-CoV Incubation in Disinfectant solution 3 log reduction, at a concentration of 0.05 and 0.1% contact period:5 min Lai et al., 2005
SARS-CoV Incubation in Disinfectant solution Complete inactivation at 0.05%, contact time: less than 1 min Ansaldi et al., 2004
SARS-CoV-2 Suspension For 4 log reduction, at 0.21%, contact period: 1 min Kampf, 2020
Surrogates of norovirus (feline calicivirus (FCV), murine norovirus (MNV), and coliphage (MS2)) Surface 3 log reduction at 5000 ppm contact time: 1.9 min (FCV), 3.2 min (MNV), 4.5 min (MS2) Park and Sobsey, 2011
Surrogates of norovirus (murine norovirus, feline calicivirus) Surface 5 log reduction At 2700 ppm, contact period: 1 min Chiu et al., 2015
coxsackie virus A16 (CAV16) and enterovirus 71 (EV71). Surface Complete inactivation At 3120 ppm, contact period: 5 min Kadurugamuwa and Shaheen, 2011
Hypochlorous acid Poliovirus Wastewater 99% inactivation by Cl concentration 0.4–0.8 mg l−1 within 22–46 s Kott et al., 1975
Murine Norovirus Surface ≥99.9% (≥3 log10) reductions at 20 to 200 ppm of HOCl solution within 10 min Park and Sobsey., 2011
Avian influenza virus H7N1 Surface Complete inactivation At 100 & 200 ppm immediately after spraying At 50 ppm, contact time 3 min Hakim et al., 2015
Chloramine Enteric virus Sewage 99.7% inactivation At of 0.7 mg l  1, contact period: minimum 4 hr Kelly and Sanderson, 1958
coronavirus 229E Surface 3 log reduction at a minimum free Cl level of 3000 ppm, contact time: 1 min Sattar et al., 1989
Chlorine dioxide bacteriophage f2, polio 1, echo 1, coxsackie B5, simian and human rotavirus Sewage effluent Complete inactivation At 15.25 ppm, contact period: 1 min Harakeh et al., 1987
SARS-CoV Wastewater Complete inactivation At 40 mg l−1 (FAC 2.19 mg l−1), contact period: 30 min
Feline calicivirus (F9 strain), HAV (strain HM-175), Coxsackie B5 Water Complete inactivation
FCV: at 0.8 mg l−1: 2 min, at 0.2 mg l−1:30 min
Coxsackie: at 0.4 mg l−1: 4 min, at 0.2 mg l−1: 30 min
HAV: at 0.8 mg l: 30 s, at 0.4 mg l−1:5 min
Zoni et al., 2007
Influenza A virus Surface ≥5log10 reduction by a concentration of 0.14 mg m−3 within 5 h Morino et al., 2011
Murine coronavirus A59 Direct exposure to gas Concentration 0.16 ppmv/min, 3.5 times reduction after 6 h, No viable virus after 12 h Kim et al., 2016
Human influenza virus Suspension 99.99% inactivation at 10 ppm, contact period: 15 s Sanekata et al., 2010
Free Chlorine Coxsackievirus B5 (CVB5), echovirus 1 (E1), murine norovirus (MNV), and human adenovirus 2 Ground water, Surface water At 0.2 and 1 mg l−1
Most effective for MNV (3-log10 CT values ≤0.020 to 0.034)
Least effective for CVB5 (3-log10 CT values 2.3 to 7.9)
Kahler et al., 2010