Table 6.

Effectiveness of the MH decontamination method in inactivating viable MS2 virus on hydrophilic sample-G FFRs

Steam decon time (min)	Liquid droplet deposition		Vapor deposition		Aerosol deposition
	MS2 recovered (log)	ED*	MS2 recovered (log)	ED*	MS2 recovered (log)	ED*
0 (control)	5.93 ± 0.21	Not determined	6.18 ±0.16	Not determined	6.16 ±0.09	Not determined
5	5.41 ± 0.36	0.52 ± 0.30	5.33 ± 0.23	0.85 ± 0.30	5.23 ±0.16	0.93 ± 0.26
10	4.69 ± 0.21	1.24 ± 0.29	4.37 ± 0.46	1.81 ± 0.38	4.27 ± 0.25	1.89 ± 0.38
15	3.97 ± 0.22	1.96 ± 0.47	3.79 ± 0.31	2.39 ± 0.29	3.71 ± 0.24	2.45 ± 0.30
20	3.39 ± 0.31	2.54 ± 0.39	3.19 ±0.12	2.99 ± 0.36	3.14 ±0.13	3.02 ± 0.29
25	2.62 ± 0.29	3.31 ± 0.10	2.51 ± 0.23	3.67 ± 0.29	2.36 ± 0.28	3.80 ± 0.28
30†	0.29 ± 0.53	5.12 ± 0.39	0.67 ± 0.53	5.51 ± 0.39	041 ± 0.24	5.75 ± 0.32

^*Mean ED ± RSD (n = 3).

^†30 min: at 30 min decontamination time, 93% of our experiments yielded to levels below minimum detection limit.