COVID-19 Surface Persistence: A Recent Data Summary and Its Importance for Medical and Dental Settings

Luca Fiorillo, Gabriele Cervino, Marco Matarese, Cesare D’Amico, Giovanni Surace, Valeria Paduano, Maria Teresa Fiorillo, Antonio Moschella, Alessia La Bruna, Giovanni Luca Romano, Riccardo Laudicella, Sergio Baldari and Marco Cicciù
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Luca Fiorillo: Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino”, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy
Gabriele Cervino: Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino”, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy
Marco Matarese: Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino”, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy
Cesare D’Amico: Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino”, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy
Giovanni Surace: Clinical Analysis Laboratory “Dott. Francesco Siracusa Rizzi s.r.l.”, Via Nazionale Archi, 89121 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy
Valeria Paduano: Unit of Microbiology and Virology, North Health Center ASP 5, 89100 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy
Maria Teresa Fiorillo: Unit of Microbiology and Virology, North Health Center ASP 5, 89100 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy
Antonio Moschella: Azienda Ospedaliera Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli, 89100 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy
Alessia La Bruna: IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan 20132, Italy
Giovanni Luca Romano: Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Catania, 95100 Catania, Italy
Riccardo Laudicella: Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, University of Messina, 98100 Messina, Italy
Sergio Baldari: Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino”, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy
Marco Cicciù: Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences, Morphological and Functional Images, University of Messina, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria “G. Martino”, Via Consolare Valeria, 98100 Messina, Italy

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 9, 1-10

Abstract: Recently, due to the coronavirus pandemic, many guidelines and anti-contagion strategies continue to report unclear information about the persistence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the environment. This certainly generates insecurity and fear in people, with an important psychological component that is not to be underestimated at this stage of the pandemic. The purpose of this article is to highlight all the sources currently present in the literature concerning the persistence of the different coronaviruses in the environment as well as in medical and dental settings. As this was a current study, there are still not many sources in the literature, and scientific strategies are moving towards therapy and diagnosis, rather than knowing the characteristics of the virus. Such an article could be an aid to summarize virus features and formulate new guidelines and anti-spread strategies.

Keywords: COVID-19; virus; epidemiology; surfaces; infection risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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