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Survival factors affecting the infectivity of hepatitis A virus isolated from Egypt

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Infection prevention and control

Abstract

Background: The physicochemical properties of viruses affect both how well they spread and how long they may survive in different environments. It would be helpful to have a complete understanding of the tools to break or limit the chain of virus transmission. In addition to choosing safe circumstances for preventing infections and the spread of these viruses. Methods and results: The data obtained demonstrated that hepatitis A viruses (HAV) were stable at freezing (–20°C). HAV's infectivity was considerably impacted by the temperature increase (70oc), with a 4.77 log10TCID50/ml titer drop. HAV was resistant to various pH levels. At pH 4 the virus titer decreased by 0.88 log10TCID50/ml. However, the virus was entirely inactivated at pH 12. The minor titer decreased by 0.54 log10TCID50/ml at 3% salt conc., indicating that HAV was salt stable. Virus deactivation by disinfectants (ethanol 20, 70 and 95%), phenol (1, 2 and 3), chlorine (5, 10 and 20 mg/l). Iodine (0.5, 1 and 3%) was performed. The exposure to 70% ethanol, a partial inactivation of 4.16 log10TCID 50/ml was detected. In contrast, HAV was completely inactivated at 3% phenol, while at 1 and 2% it maintained its infectivity. The virucidal efficiency of chlorine was detected at 20 mg/l, while at 5 and 10 mg/l, the titer was decreased by 0.86 and 6.19 log10TCID50/ml, respectively. Iodine at all measured concentrations did not show a complete ability to fully integrate HAV. Conclusion: HAV is very stable and somewhat resistant to environmental influences, acidic pH, high temperature and chemicals.

DOI

10.21608/mid.2023.237037.1619

Keywords

HAV, Temperature, pH, salt, disinfectants

Authors

First Name

Abdallah

Last Name

Ragab

MiddleName

Shaban

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, 11884 Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Email

abdallahshaban005@gmail.com

City

cairo

Orcid

0009000657824184

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Hmed

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, 11884 Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Email

ahmed_hmed@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Sofy

MiddleName

Ramadan

Affiliation

Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, 11884 Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Email

ahmed_sofy@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

0000000326855851

Volume

5

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

45807

Issue Date

2024-02-01

Receive Date

2023-09-18

Publish Date

2024-02-01

Page Start

113

Page End

126

Print ISSN

2682-4132

Online ISSN

2682-4140

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https://mid.journals.ekb.eg/article_323770.html

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1,157

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Publication Title

Microbes and Infectious Diseases

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Survival factors affecting the infectivity of hepatitis A virus isolated from Egypt

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25 Dec 2024