Global Dialysis - Washing your hospital scrubs at home? Water may not be hot enough to kill drug-resistant bacteria.

Washing your hospital scrubs at home? Water may not be hot enough to kill drug-resistant bacteria.

EurekAlert: Residential washing machines may not always use hot enough water to eliminate dangerous bacteria like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Acinetobacter, a Gram-negative bacteria, from hospital uniforms, according to a study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, the journal of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.

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