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DOI: 10.24075/brsmu.2021.033

ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Evaluation of SARS-CoV-2 viability on experimental surfaces over time

Nikiforova MA1, Siniavin AE1,2, Shidlovskaya EV1, Kuznetsova NA1, Gushchin VA1,3
About authors

1 Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology, Moscow, Russia

2 Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia

3 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Maria A. Nikiforova
Gamaleya, 18, Moscow, 123098; ur.xobni@avorofikinairam

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Funding: this research was funded by the grant #056 - 00119 - 21-00 provided by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Russia.

Acknowledgments: the authors are grateful to Dr. I.V. Korobko for the general idea and discussion of the study design.

Author contribution: Nikiforova MA — experiment planning, working with the virus and determining SARS-CoV-2 viability, data analyzing, writing-original draft preparation; Siniavin AE — working with the virus and determining SARS-CoV-2 viability, data analysing, writing-original draft preparation; Shidlovskaya EV — PCRanalysis, data processing, writing-original draft preparation; Kuznetsova NA — PCR-analysis; Gushchin VA — experiment planning, writing-original draft preparation.

Received: 2021-06-25 Accepted: 2021-07-09 Published online: 2021-07-13
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