Applications of Germicidal Ultraviolet in Infectious Disease Laboratories

Abstract

A UV sterilizer was developed capable of eliminating high concentrations of bacterial spores from air at a flow rate of 1 cfm and high concentrations of vegetative cells at 10 cfm. The apparatus utilizes four G36T6 UV tubes enclosed in aluminum tubes. It is suggested that the apparatus may be used to sterilize small volumes of air containing infectious microorganisms which are exhausted from aerated bacterial cultures or from small aerosol chambers.