About the Authors
- Elizabeth Kirby
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Kirby, Joanne Dickinson
Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Joanne Dickinson
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elizabeth Kirby, Joanne Dickinson
Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Matthew Vassey
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Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Mike Dennis
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Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Mark Cornwall
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Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Neil McLeod
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Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Andrew Smith
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Affiliation College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences, Glasgow Dental Hospital & School, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Philip D. Marsh
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Affiliations Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom, Leeds Dental Institute, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- James T. Walker
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Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- J. Mark Sutton
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* E-mail: mark.sutton@hpa.org.uk
Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Neil D. H. Raven
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Affiliation Health Protection Agency - Porton Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
AS has received lecture fees and funding for a PhD studentship from W&H Ltd, lecture fees from Steris Ltd and travel expenses for attending a meeting from Schulke and Mayr. PM identified consultancy work for Johnson and Johnson, UK and Unilever, UK. JMS identified consultancy work for Advanced Sterilisation Products and funding for research involving TSO3, CISA SpaA, BES Decon, BiotAK, and Genencor International. JMS also received travel money to attend a meeting of the British Association for the Study of Community Dentistry. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: NR MD JW PM AS JD JMS. Performed the experiments: EK JD MV MD MC NM. Analyzed the data: NR MV NM JMS. Wrote the paper: JMS.