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Review
. 2020 Apr 30;17(9):3132.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17093132.

COVID-19 Surface Persistence: A Recent Data Summary and Its Importance for Medical and Dental Settings

Luca Fiorillo  1 , Gabriele Cervino  1 , Marco Matarese  1 , Cesare D'Amico  1 , Giovanni Surace  2   3 , Valeria Paduano  3 , Maria Teresa Fiorillo  3 , Antonio Moschella  4 , Alessia La Bruna  5 , Giovanni Luca Romano  6 , Riccardo Laudicella  7 , Sergio Baldari  1   7 , Marco Cicciù  1
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Review

COVID-19 Surface Persistence: A Recent Data Summary and Its Importance for Medical and Dental Settings

Luca Fiorillo et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Recently, due to the coronavirus pandemic, many guidelines and anti-contagion strategies continue to report unclear information about the persistence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the environment. This certainly generates insecurity and fear in people, with an important psychological component that is not to be underestimated at this stage of the pandemic. The purpose of this article is to highlight all the sources currently present in the literature concerning the persistence of the different coronaviruses in the environment as well as in medical and dental settings. As this was a current study, there are still not many sources in the literature, and scientific strategies are moving towards therapy and diagnosis, rather than knowing the characteristics of the virus. Such an article could be an aid to summarize virus features and formulate new guidelines and anti-spread strategies.

Keywords: COVID-19; epidemiology; infection risk; surfaces; virus.

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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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