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. 2021 Jul 17;18(9):2865–2878. doi: 10.1007/s13762-021-03495-9

Table 1.

Survival of virus on surfaces

References Test virus Viral titer Substrate T RH Results
Lin and Marr (2020) MS2 phage and Φ6 phage 1010 to 1011 pfu·ml−1 Polystyrene cell culture plate 22 ℃

23–100%

7 working conditions

Both viruses had high relative survival at low and high RH
Prussin et al. (2018) Phi6 phage 108 to 1010pfu·ml−1 Cell culture plate

14 °C;

19 °C;

22 °C;

25 °C;

28 °C;

31 °C;

34 °C;

37 °C;

40 °C

23–98%

7 working conditions

Viral infectivity decreases exponentially with increasing temperature. When RH is moderate, the infectivity decreases significantly
Yang et al. (2012) IAV 1.78 × 108 TCID50·ml−1 Cell culture plate 20–24 °C

17.5–98.9

9 working conditions

The survival rate of influenza virus was highest when the RH was close to 100% or less than 50%
Chan et al. (2011) SARS-CoV 107 TCID50·ml−1 Plastic plates 28 °C; 33 °C; 38 °C 80 °C; 89%; > 95% High RH and high temperature have certain inactivation effect on SARS-CoV
Casanova et al. (2010) TGEV 106 to 107MPN·ml−1 Stainless steel 4 °C; 20 °C; 40 °C 20%; 50%; 80% High temperature inactivates the virus to a certain extent; the inactivation rate of the virus is higher under moderate RH
MHV 106 to 107MPN·ml−1 4 °C; 20 °C;40 °C 20%; 50%; 80%
Duan et al. (2003) SARS-CoV 3.33 × 106 TCID50·ml−1 Materials in household and in nature 4 °C; 20 °C; 37 °C; 56 °C; 67 °C; 75 °C Uncontrolled The infectivity of SARS-CoV decreases with increasing temperature
Riddell et al. (2020) SARS-CoV-2 4.97 × 107·ml−1 Stainless steel, Polymer note, Paper note, Glass, Cotton, Vinyl 20 °C; 30 °C; 40 °C Uncontrolled High temperature decreases the half-life and initial viral loads of SARS-CoV-2 on different surfaces
Kratzel et al. (2020) SARS-CoV-2/München-1.1/2020/929 1.58 × 107 TCID50·ml−1 Metal discs 4 °C; Room temper-ature; 30 °C Uncontrolled The recovered virus titers had only minimal decline at 30 °C and a larger variability at 4 °C
Bearden and Casanova (2016) Φ6 phage 107 PFU Plastic toy 22 ℃ 40%; 60% Inactivation was approximately 2log10 after 24 h at 60% RH and 6.8log10 at 10 h at 40% RH