This is our Friday rubric: every week a new Science Page from the Bob Morrison’s Swine Health Monitoring Project. The previous editions of the science page are available on our website.
This week, we are sharing the summary of Dr. Cheeran’s team study on the stability of PEDv on fomite materials at different temperatures.
Key points:
- Type of material and temperature have an impact on PEDV stability.
- Infectious PEDV was not recovered from any fomite material after 2 days at room temperature (25ºC / 77ºF).
- PEDV showed higher stability on plastic, cloth, Tyvek® coveralls, aluminum foil, Styrofoam at 4ºC (39.2ºF).
- Virus could be detected by qRT-PCR from contaminated fomites even when infectivity was not observed.
Click here for our full post on the subject.