Publications and communications of Lorène Dams

Martinez, E., Crevecoeur, S., Dams, L., Rabecki, F., Habraken, S., Haubruge, E., & Daube, G. (30 March 2022). Effect of five decontamination methods on face masks and filtering facepiece respirators contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. access microbiology, 4 (3). doi:10.1099/acmi.0.000342

Wielick, C.* , Fries, A.* , Dams, L., Razafimahefa, R. M., Heyne, B., Harcourt, B. H., Lendvay, T. S., Willaert, J.-F., De Jaeger, S., Haubruge, E., Thiry, E., & Ludwig-Begall, L. (2022). Of masks and methylene blue - the use of methylene blue photochemical treatment to decontaminate surgical masks contaminated with a tenacious small non-enveloped norovirus. American Journal of Infection Control. doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2022.01.024
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Lendvay, T. S., Chen, J., Harcourt, B. H., Scholte, F. E. M., Kilinc-Balci, S., Ling Lin, Y. L., Lamb, M. M., Price, A., Lin, Y. C., Kabra, K. B., Haubruge, E., Thiry, E., Heyne, B., Laperre, J., Page, K., Cui, Y., Clark, T., Smits, S. J., Parker, R., ... Nauwynck, H. (2021). Addressing personal protective equipment (PPE) decontamination : methylene blue and light inactivates SARS-CoV-2 on N95 respirators and medical masks with maintenance of integrity and fit. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. doi:10.1017/ice.2021.230

Ludwig-Begall, L., Wielick, C., Jolois, O., Dams, L., Razafimahefa, R. M., Nauwynck, H., Demeuldre, P.-F., NAPP, A., Laperre, J., Thiry, E., & Haubruge, E. (2021). "Don, doff, discard" to "don, doff, decontaminate" FFR and mask integrity and inactivation of a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate and a norovirus following multiple vaporised hydrogen peroxide-, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation-, and dry heat decontamination. PLoS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0251872

Wielick, C., Ludwig-Begall, L., Dams, L., Razafimahefa, R. M., Demeuldre, P.-F., NAPP, A., Laperre, J., Haubruge, E., & Thiry, E. (2021). The use of germicidal ultraviolet light, vaporised hydrogen peroxide and dry heat to decontaminate face masks and filtering respirators contaminated with an infectious norovirus. Infection Prevention in Practice, 3, 100111. doi:10.1016/j.infpip.2020.100111

Ludwig-Begall, L., Wielick, C., Dams, L., Nauwynck, H., Demeuldre, P.-F., Napp, A., Laperre, J., Haubruge, E., & Thiry, E. (2020). The use of germicidal ultraviolet light, vaporised hydrogen peroxide and dry heat to decontaminate face masks and filtering respirators contaminated with a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate virus. Journal of Hospital Infection, 106, 577-584. doi:10.1016/j.jhin.2020.08.025

China, B., Leroy, B., Dams, L., Clinquart, A., & Daube, G. (2005). Occurrence of the genotype of the receptor gene for ryanodine (Ryr1) associated with sensitivity to stress in 5 Belgian porcine production systems. Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire, 149 (3), 161-165.