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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.… Click to show full 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.
Keywords:
linen;
linen hospital;
transplant cancer;
clean linen;
hospital mucorales
Journal Title: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Year Published: 2019
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