Articles Tagged With: linens
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What Is in Your Laundry? The Threat of Mucormycosis
Even pressed and folded, so-called “hygienically clean” hospital laundry can harbor fungal pathogens, sometimes in sufficient number to cause fatal mucormycosis infections in high-risk patients, outbreak investigators reported at the 2023 conference of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.
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Sleep Tight, Don’t Let the Mucorales Bite
Mucorales were found to commonly contaminate linen delivered to 15 transplant and cancer centers in the United States.