Handwashing and Detergent Treatment Greatly Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load on Halloween Candy Handled by COVID-19 Patients

DOI: 10.1128/mSystems.01074-20

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^aDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^bDepartment of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^cDepartment of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
^dDepartment of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^eDepartment of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^fStem Cell Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^gInstitute for Genomic Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^hHerbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
ⁱDepartment of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^jScripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^kCenter for Microbiome Innovation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^lDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
^mViral Information Institute, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA

Address correspondence to Louise Laurent, llaurent{at}ucsd.edu, Forest Rohwer, frohwer{at}gmail.com, or Rob Knight, robknight{at}ucsd.edu.
Rodolfo A. Salido, Sydney C. Morgan, and Maria I. Rojas contributed equally to this work. Author order was determined by consensus among the corresponding authors based on a written description of the contribution of each author.
Citation Salido RA, Morgan SC, Rojas MI, Magallanes CG, Marotz C, DeHoff P, Belda-Ferre P, Aigner S, Kado DM, Yeo GW, Gilbert JA, Laurent L, Rohwer F, Knight R. 2020. Handwashing and detergent treatment greatly reduce SARS-CoV-2 viral load on Halloween candy handled by COVID-19 patients. mSystems 5:e01074-20. https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.01074-20.