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CORRECTION article

Front. Microbiol.

Sec. Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy

This article is part of the Research TopicInnovative Approaches to Preventing and Treating Biofilm-Associated InfectionsView all 8 articles

Correction: Assessment of the anti-biofilm effect of UV-C irradiation (254nm) against Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) related microorganisms

Provisionally accepted
Francesco  PalmaFrancesco Palma1Marta  Díaz-NavarroMarta Díaz-Navarro2Andrés  VisedoAndrés Visedo2Pablo  Sanz-RuízPablo Sanz-Ruíz3Giorgio  BrandiGiorgio Brandi1Giuditta  Fiorella SchiavanoGiuditta Fiorella Schiavano1*María  GuembeMaría Guembe2
  • 1Universita degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
  • 2Instituto de Investigacion Sanitaria Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain
  • 3Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Maranon, Madrid, Spain

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

The figures were in the wrong order in the PDF/HTML version of this paper. Only images of Figure 2 and Figure 3 were mixed up. However, the order of Figure 2 and Figure 3 captions is correct. All figures were correctly uploaded during submission, but the errors in the draft slipped through our fingers during proofreading. The order has now been corrected.The original version of this article has been updated. Funder name incorrect An incorrect Funding statement was provided. The correct funding statement reads "The open access publication of this paper was funded by research grants from the Department of Humanities, DISTUM of the University of Urbino Carlo Bo".The original version of this article has been updated.

Keywords: UV-C, Biofilm, Hospital surface, Disinfection, Healthcare-associated infection

Received: 06 Nov 2025; Accepted: 25 Nov 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Palma, Díaz-Navarro, Visedo, Sanz-Ruíz, Brandi, Schiavano and Guembe. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Giuditta Fiorella Schiavano

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