It seems “energy saver” washing machines may not be killing all the potentially harmful pathogens on your clothing — as was reportedly the case at a hospital in Germany. Researchers, in a study ...

A washing machine used to clean newborn clothing harbored a multidrug-resistant bacteria and spread it to multiple patients, a new case study from Germany suggests. Published Friday in the ...

The bacterium involved was a single clone of Klebsiella oxytoca. The study showed how the organisms were transmitted repeatedly to new babies in a ward located in a children’s hospital. The ...