Decontamination of N95 masks for re-use employing 7 widely available sterilization methods

• Anand Kumar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anand Kumar, Jay Krishnan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: akumar61@yahoo.com

  Affiliation Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Departments of Medicine, Medical Microbiology and Pharmacology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5034-4341

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• Samantha B. Kasloff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Anders Leung,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Todd Cutts,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7691-5619

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• James E. Strong,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0658-6669

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• Kevin Hills,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation National Centre for Foreign Animal Diseases, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Frank X. Gu,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Paul Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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• Gloria Vazquez-Grande,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Barret Rush,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Sylvain Lother,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Section of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Kimberly Malo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Occupational & Environmental Safety and Health, Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Ryan Zarychanski,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Sections of Critical Care and Hematology, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

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• Jay Krishnan

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anand Kumar, Jay Krishnan

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Winnipeg, Canada

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