Comparison of Disinfection of Phi6 Virus Bacteriophage on Fomites by Various Methods and a Prototype for IR Application

Comment on Manna et al. SARS-CoV-2 Inactivation in Aerosol by Means of Radiated Microwaves. Viruses 2023, 15, 1443

“…This is often simply referred to as Lamb’s theory or equation, and only requires the radius of the sphere, as well as its longitudinal and transverse sound velocities, as input ( Appendix A ). Recent studies have investigated microwave resonant absorption as a mechanism for inactivating spherical viruses [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 ]. These studies propose that virus inactivation results from a structural-resonant energy transfer (SRET) process, where electromagnetic fields matching the frequency of the dipolar mode of a virus capsid excite a confined acoustic vibration which damages its structure [ 9 ].…”