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| Title |
Bacterial Exchange in Household Washing Machines
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Microbiology, December 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fmicb.2015.01381 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Chris Callewaert, Sam Van Nevel, Frederiek-Maarten Kerckhof, Michael S. Granitsiotis, Nico Boon |
| Abstract |
Household washing machines (WMs) launder soiled clothes and textiles, but do not sterilize them. We investigated the microbial exchange occurring in five household WMs. Samples from a new cotton T-shirt were laundered together with a normal laundry load. Analyses were performed on the influent water and the ingoing cotton samples, as well as the greywater and the washed cotton samples. The number of living bacteria was generally not lower in the WM effluent water as compared to the influent water. The laundering process caused a microbial exchange of influent water bacteria, skin-, and clothes-related bacteria and biofilm-related bacteria in the WM. A variety of biofilm-producing bacteria were enriched in the effluent after laundering, although their presence in the cotton sample was low. Nearly all bacterial genera detected on the initial cotton sample were still present in the washed cotton samples. A selection for typical skin- and clothes-related microbial species occurred in the cotton samples after laundering. Accordingly, malodour-causing microbial species might be further distributed to other clothes. The bacteria on the ingoing textiles contributed for a large part to the microbiome found in the textiles after laundering. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 58 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 13 | 22% |
| Norway | 2 | 3% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 3% |
| Switzerland | 2 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Australia | 2 | 3% |
| New Zealand | 2 | 3% |
| Uruguay | 1 | 2% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 6 | 10% |
| Unknown | 25 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 34 | 59% |
| Scientists | 21 | 36% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 3% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 161 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 159 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 30 | 19% |
| Researcher | 29 | 18% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 4% |
| Other | 21 | 13% |
| Unknown | 37 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 17% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 25 | 16% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 13 | 8% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 4% |
| Engineering | 6 | 4% |
| Other | 35 | 22% |
| Unknown | 48 | 30% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 153. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 March 2023.
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