Decontaminating N95/FFP2 masks for reuse during the COVID-19 epidemic: a systematic review

Table 2 Number of individual experiments per method of decontamination

Method	Number of studies
Benzalkonium Chloride wipes [2]	1
Non-antimicrobial detergent wipes [2]	1
UVGI + medium humidity heat [8]	1
Peracetic acid dry fogging system [21]	1
UVA [3]	1
Ethylene oxide [8, 21]	2
Hypochlorite [2, 3]	2
UVGI + dry heat [8, 36]	2
Gaseous hydrogen peroxide with peracetic acid [6, 26]	2
Ozone [27,28,29]	3
Ethanol [3,4,5]	3
Steam [3, 20, 21]	3
Microwave-generated moist heat [14, 15, 17,18,19]	5
Moist heat [7, 8, 12,13,14,15,16,17]	8
Dry Heat [3, 5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12]	9
Gaseous hydrogen peroxide [4, 5, 8, 9, 21,22,23,24,25]	11
UVGI [3,4,5,6, 8, 9, 30,31,32,33,34,35]	15

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