{"id":108342,"date":"2020-06-08T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/virus-dna-spread-across-surfaces-in-hospital-ward-over-10-hours"},"modified":"2020-06-08T01:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T08:22:39","slug":"virus-dna-spread-across-surfaces-in-hospital-ward-over-10-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/virus-dna-spread-across-surfaces-in-hospital-ward-over-10-hours","title":{"rendered":"Virus DNA spread across surfaces in hospital ward over 10 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/virus-dna-spread-across-surfaces-in-hospital-ward-over-10-hours2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Virus DNA left on a hospital bed rail was found in nearly half of all sites sampled across a ward within 10 hours and persisted for at least five days, according to a new study by UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).<\/p>\n<p>The study, published as a letter in the <i>Journal of Hospital Infection<\/i>, aimed to safely simulate how SARS-CoV-2, the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/virus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virus<\/a> that causes Covid-19, may spread across surfaces in a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using the SARS-CoV-2 virus, researchers artificially replicated a section of DNA from a plant-infecting virus, which cannot infect humans, and added it to a milliliter of water at a similar concentration to SARS-CoV-2 copies found in infected patients\u2019 respiratory samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virus DNA left on a hospital bed rail was found in nearly half of all sites sampled across a ward within 10 hours and persisted for at least five days, according to a new study by UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). The study, published as a letter in the Journal of Hospital Infection, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}