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Commonly used alcohol-based hand rubs with a total alcohol concentration >= 75% can be assumed to be active against clinically relevant enveloped viruses if they effectively reduce the infectivities of vaccinia virus and BVDV in a quantitative suspension test.
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BMC Infectious Diseases 2007, 7:5 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-7-5
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http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/7/5/abstract
Commonly used alcohol-based hand rubs with a total alcohol concentration >= 75% can be assumed to be active against clinically relevant enveloped viruses if they effectively reduce the infectivities of vaccinia virus and BVDV in a quantitative suspension test.
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Gunter Kampf
, Jochen Steinmann
and Holger Rabenau 
BMC Infectious Diseases 2007, 7:5 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-7-5
<TABLE class=smalltext cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Published</TD><TD width=25> </TD><TD>9 February 2007</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P>
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