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Toothbrush Disinfection May Protect Against COVID-19 – Medscape
Brazilian dentists propose a protocol for toothbrush disinfection as a measure to limit SARS-CoV-2 transmission in communal spaces.
SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted, even from asymptomatic individuals, in different ways, including droplets, aerosols and, to a lesser degree, fomites.
Now, Brazilian researchers have evaluated the use of these products in a toothbrush disinfection protocol, they report in an article published online in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.
As highlighted by the authors in the text, published as a Letter to the Editor, individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 have “high viral loads in saliva, nasopharynx…
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