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Athlete's foot fungus in the laundry basket?
25 Mar '10
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But are the fungus spores destroyed during the subsequent washing cycle? To answer this question, Hohenstein researchers subjected the cotton swatches which were loaded with dermatophyte spores to several washing cycles in a common domestic washing machine. In the first cycle, the test material was washed at 30°C using an all-in-one detergent. The result: a portion of fungus spores survived the cycle virtually unscathed and remained infectious. Hence it appears that the risk of infection within one's own house cannot be adequately addressed with a low-temperature washing cycle. For this reason additional washing cycles were carried out at 60°C, and fungus cultures of the washed textile samples were started. In this case, the researchers were able to give the all-clear: All pieces of clothing were free of athlete's foot germs.
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