How Clean Is the Linen at My Hospital? The Mucorales on Unclean Linen Discovery Study of Large United States Transplant and Cancer Centers.
Journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases : An Official Publication Of The Infectious Diseases Society Of America
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Abstract
Mucormycosis outbreaks have been linked to contaminated linen. We performed fungal cultures on freshly-laundered linens at 15 transplant and cancer hospitals. At 33% of hospitals, the linens were visibly unclean. At 20%, Mucorales were recovered from >10% of linens. Studies are needed to understand the clinical significance of our findings.
Authors
Alexander Sundermann, Cornelius Clancy, A Pasculle, Guojun Liu, Richard Cumbie, Eileen Driscoll, Ashley Ayres, Lisa Donahue, Steven Pergam, Lilian Abbo, David Andes, Pranatharthi Chandrasekar, Alison Galdys, Kimberly Hanson, Kieren Marr, Jeanmarie Mayer, Seema Mehta, Michele Morris, John Perfect, Sanjay Revankar, Becky Smith, Sankar Swaminathan, George Thompson, Merin Varghese, Jose Vazquez, Estella Whimbey, John Wingard, M Nguyen
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