Investigating Viral Inoculation and Recovery from Medical Masks

Table 4

Viral recovery from medical examination gloves, which had been used to transfer virus from the surface of a standard (“control”) type IIR mask or a photosensitizer-treated antiviral (AV) type IIR mask.

Mask	Replicate	TCID50/glove	Average TCID50/glove	% reduction of antiviral mask	SD	Significance
Control	1	1.33 × 10^5	1.56 × 10^5	99.99	±3.18 × 10^4	p < 0.05
	2	1.78 × 10^5
Antiviral	1	0	0
	2	0