Microbial Contamination on the Clothes Part 2 : Evalution of Antimicrobial Activity of Antimicrobial-Finished Textiles
Bulletin of the Faculty of Education, Yamaguchi University. Natural science Volume 44 Issue 2
Page 47-60
published_at 1994-10
Title
衣類の微生物汚染 第2報 抗菌加工布の抗菌効果
Microbial Contamination on the Clothes Part 2 : Evalution of Antimicrobial Activity of Antimicrobial-Finished Textiles
Creators
Uemura Motoko
Source Identifiers
In this study, the antimicrobial activities of two types of commercial antimicrobial-finished textiles, two antimicrobial-and deordrant-finished textiles (Textile A) and one MRSA-inhibiting textile (Textile B), were evaluated using two methods. One is a direct method by which the antimicrobial activity of the textiles against two strains of Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA and MRSA) and one strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae was directly measured, and the othe is a wearing method by which the number of bacteria transferred from foot skin to textile-paches on wearing was counted. The resulsts were sa follows. 1. Both of the Textile A showed similar activity by two methods. 2. One of the Textile A showed no antimicrobial activity, but the other showed considerable activity against all strains. The wearing method showed that the latter textile has the ability to decrease the transferred bacteria to one-tenth compared with untreated textile (10^3-10^4cfu/cm^2). 3. Textile B showed antimicrobial activity against not only MRSA but also MSSA and K. pneumoniae. It was, however, demonstrated by the wearing method that this textile is not effective to reduce cotaminated bacteria. Consequently, special care should be paid to quality control, since it is difficult for consumers to evaluate the quality of antimicrobial-finished textile by their appearance.
Languages
jpn
Resource Type
departmental bulletin paper
Publishers
山口大学教育学部
Date Issued
1994-10
File Version
Not Applicable (or Unknown)
Access Rights
metadata only access
Relations
[ISSN]0513-1693
[NCID]AN00243950
Schools
教育学部