Adapted from BMJ 10 Feb 2024
Alexei A Birkun, associate professor, Simferopol wrote a letter into BMJ:
Walker and colleagues explore whether coffee makers are a source of nosocomial pathogens (Champagne Problems Christmas 2023).
The researchers took swabs from the drip tray outlets, buttons, water tank handle, and inside the water tank of coffee makers. But what about the less accessible interior parts?
A couple of days before reading the article, I cleaned the infuser of our home coffee maker. To my surprise, a round shaped fungal colony was sitting on coffee residues left on the infuser.
While hospital fungal pathogens might invade the interior of coffee makers is unclear, but internal components are probably less commonly cleaned and could be a favourable humid environment for fungi.
Previous research has shown that coffee can be a good medium for fungal growth, and toxigenic fungal genera are well known coffee contaminants.
Fungal species living in the interior of coffee makers should not be overlooked in future research.
My comment: Anyone for tea?
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