ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2019
How Clean Is the Linen at My Hospital? The Mucorales on Unclean Linen Discovery Study of Large United States Transplant and Cancer Centers.
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- How long do bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses retain their replication capacity on inanimate surfaces? A systematic review examining environmental resilience versus healthcare-associated infection risk by "fomite-borne risk assessment".Clinical microbiology reviews · 2024Pooled it
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- Two decades of mucormycosis: molecular epidemiology and antifungal susceptibility trends in Türkiye.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Microbial Colonization, Biofilm Formation, and Malodour of Washing Machine Surfaces and Fabrics and the Evolution of Detergents in Response to Consumer Demands and Environmental Concerns.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Outbreaks of Fungal Infections in Hospitals: Epidemiology, Detection, and Management.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Epidemiology, Modern Diagnostics, and the Management of Mucorales Infections.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Keeping health care linens clean: Underrecognized hazards and critical control points to avoid contamination of laundered health care textiles.American journal of infection control · 2022Article
- Investigation of a Prolonged and Large Outbreak of Healthcare-Associated Mucormycosis Cases in an Acute Care Hospital-Arkansas, June 2019-May 2021.Open forum infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Epidemiology and Antifungal Susceptibilities of Mucoralean Fungi in Clinical Samples from the United States.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2021Article
- Laundry Hygiene and Odor Control: State of the Science.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2021Review
- Genetic diversity of clinical and environmental Mucorales isolates obtained from an investigation of mucormycosis cases among solid organ transplant recipients.Microbial genomics · 2020Article
- Outbreaks of Mucorales and the Species Involved.Mycopathologia · 2020Review
- Biotic Environments Supporting the Persistence of Clinically Relevant Mucormycetes.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
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- A Guide to Investigating Suspected Outbreaks of Mucormycosis in Healthcare.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Disease Entities in Mucormycosis.Journal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- COVID-19, mucormycosis, and the cow: Damned lies!Indian journal of medical microbiologyArticle
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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.
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