Advancing surgical instrument safety: A screen of oxidative and alkaline prion decontaminants using real-time quaking-induced conversion with prion-coated steel beads as surgical instrument mimetic

• Daniel Heinzer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Heinzer, Merve Avar

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

  Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3282-4042

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• Merve Avar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Daniel Heinzer, Merve Avar

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America; Stanford Brain Organogenesis, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and Bio-X, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States of America

  Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Manuela Pfammatter,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Lonza AG, Visp, Switzerland

  Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Rita Moos,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Petra Schwarz,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Matthias T. Buhmann,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Borer Chemie AG, Zuchwil, Switzerland

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• Benjamin Kuhn,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Borer Chemie AG, Zuchwil, Switzerland

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• Stefan Mauerhofer,

  Roles Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Borer Chemie AG, Zuchwil, Switzerland

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• Urs Rosenberg,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Borer Chemie AG, Zuchwil, Switzerland

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• Adriano Aguzzi,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Simone Hornemann

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: simone.hornemann@usz.ch

  Affiliation Institute of Neuropathology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2674-9891

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