TY - JOUR
AU1 - Church, Brooks D.
AU2 - Loosli, Clayton G.
AB - THE ROLE OF THE LAUNDRY IN THE RECONTAMI­ NATION OF WASHED BEDDING BROOKS D. CHURCH AND CLAYTO~ G. LOOSLI From the Preventive Medicine Section, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois During the course of a study of the investigation extensive sampling of the use of ethylene oxide gas (Carboxide*) air, water and textiles was done for the as a routine procedure for sterilizing presence of bacteria during the fall and hospital bedding and equipment, base­ winter months of 1950, 1951 and 1952. line observations were made on the bac­ MATERIALS AND METHODS terial content of freshly laundered sheets, Laundries.-The study was carried out in two cotton and woolen blankets and other laundries. Laundry A was a small but complete textiles.' The majority of strains iso­ unit operated by the maternity section of the lated were {3 and non hemolytic staphy­ hospital. Laundry B was a commercial laundry lococci and a streptococci. As these or­ which served the rest of the hospital on a contract ganisms are generally considered to be basis. The physical set-up, machinery and laundry procedure (soap, time, etc.) in the two of human or animal origin, it seemed im­ laundries were essentially 
TI - The Role of the Laundry in the Recontamination of Washed Bedding
JF - The Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/93.1.65
DA - 1953-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-role-of-the-laundry-in-the-recontamination-of-washed-bedding-0JB9gcivBO
SP - 65
EP - 74
VL - 93
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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