TY - JOUR
AU - Quondamatteo, Fabio
AU - Corzo-Leon, Dora E.
AU - Brassett, Cecilia
AU - Colquhoun, Ian
AU - Davies, David C.
AU - Dockery, Peter
AU - Grenham, Sue
AU - Guild, Simon
AU - Hunter, Amanda
AU - Jones, James
AU - Lee, Thomas C.
AU - Tracey, Chris
AU - Wilkinson, Tracey
AU - Munro, Carol A.
AU - Gillingwater, Thomas H.
AU - Parson, Simon H.
PY - 2021
DA - November
TI - Neutralisation of SARS‐CoV‐2 by anatomical embalming solutions
JO - Journal of Anatomy
EP - 1225
VL - 239
IS - 5
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/joa.13549
AB - Teaching and learning anatomy by using human cadaveric specimens has been a foundation of medical and biomedical teaching for hundreds of years. Therefore, the majority of institutions that teach topographical anatomy rely on body donation programmes to provide specimens for both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching of gross anatomy. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented challenge to anatomy teaching because of the suspension of donor acceptance at most institutions. This was largely due to concerns about the potential transmissibility of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the absence of data about the ability of embalming solutions to neutralise the virus. Twenty embalming solutions commonly used in institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland were tested for their ability to neutralise SARS-CoV-2, using an established cytotoxicity assay. All embalming solutions tested neutralised SARS-CoV-2, with the majority of solutions being effective at high-working dilutions. These results suggest that successful embalming with the tested solutions can neutralise the SARS-CoV-2 virus, thereby facilitating the safe resumption of body donation programmes and cadaveric anatomy teaching.
PB - Wiley
UR - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/256926/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER