Current decontamination procedures for digestive tract endoscopy equipment are effective against risk hepatitis C virus transmission [8];Les procedures actuelles de decontamination du materiel d'endoscopie digestive sont efficaces vis-a-vis du risque de transmission du virus de l'hepatite C

Gastroenterologie Clinique et Biologique

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 975-976

  Ardizzone, Jean François ^a   Causse, Xavier ^a   Potier, Pascal ^a   Lagasse, Jean Paul ^a   Gros, Jacques ^a   Doyen, Martine ^a   Labarriere, Damien ^a   Legoux, Jean Louis ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER RÉGIONAL D ORLÉANS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPE; FEMALE; HEPATITIS C; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; NONHUMAN; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DECONTAMINATION; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HEPATITIS C; HUMANS;

EID: 0033766871     PISSN: 03998320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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1. Endoscopie et virus de l'hepatite C: Quel risque?
2. Prevalence et facteurs de risques de l'infection par le virus de l'hepatite C dans une population hospitalisee en gastroenterologie. Role des biopsies per-endoscopiques
3. Hepatitis C virus contamination of endoscopes and biopsy-forceps
4. Hepatitis C virus RNA on digestives endoscopes
5. Effectiveness of a manual disinfection procedure in eleminating hepatitis C virus from experimentally contamined endoscopes