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Article: Old curiosity shop.(Brief article)
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- Bandolier
- Article date:
- June 1, 1997
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The gonococcus and the toilet seat
The question being asked here is pretty obvious. Some researchers from Oregon tried to answer the question and published their results in the New England Journal in 1979 [1]. To test the hypothesis that toilet seats could serve as a reservoir for infectious agents they did two experiments. First they determined the survival of gonococci added in large quantities to toilet seats. Then they surveyed a number of 'restrooms' and cultured material from the toilet seats in them.
Results
Adding gonococcus (N. gonorrhoeae) to toilet seats and culturing the material added at various times up to four hours later showed ...