Disinfection of football protective equipment using chlorine dioxide produced by the ICA TriNova system

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Application (1.3 × 10⁸ CFU) and ClO₂ treatment (5 h) of Staphylococcus aureus applied to football pads (numbers represent colony count units).

	Surface mesh swab	Under Mesh	Top of foam pad	0.5 cm into foam pad
5 h (treated)	0	0	0	0
Control (untreated)	3,528	7,056	7,056	4,536
t-Test:	p = 0.029

3 of 3 spore strips (10³ spores of Bacillus atrophaeus on steel discs enclosed in Tyvak) had no growth in TSB.

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