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DISINFECTING INTRAVENOUS CONNECTORS Disinfecting nubs, disinfecting nub assemblies, and methods of use for disinfecting medical access ports, and maintaining such ports disinfected. In nub assemblies, nubs are mounted on substrates. Substrates can have substrate connectors, used to connect the nub assembly to an object. That object can be a user's body or on an IV tubing assembly. Mounting the nub assembly on the user's body means nubs are available wherever needed, at multiple user locations. Mounting substrate connectors to IV tubing connected to a patient, especially mounted adjacent a medical access port, such as a luer connector, on that tubing, makes the nubs immediately available when and where needed for disinfecting that port. The disinfecting nub can be squeezable. Dead fold properties of the nub hold the nub on the port after the port is inserted into the nub, the nub is squeezed, and the squeezing is released. 21356375_1 A-30 |