UV radiation sensitivity of bacteriophage PhiX174 - A potential surrogate for SARS-CoV-2 in terms of radiation inactivation

To minimize health risks, surrogates are often employed to reduce experiments with pathogenic microorganisms and the associated health risk. Due to structural similarities between the enveloped RNA-viruses SARS-CoV-2 and Phi6, the latter has been established as a nonpathogenic coronavirus surrogate...

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Main Authors: Laura Weyersberg, Florian Sommerfeld, Petra Vatter, Martin Hessling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2023-05-01
Series:AIMS Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/microbiol.2023023?viewType=HTML