Should we be doing endoscope surveillance cultures?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 1158, 2002, Pages

  Everts, Richard ^a   Holland, David ^b  

^a PALMERSTON NORTH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b Child and Family Unit   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONCHOSCOPY; CLEANING; CONTAMINATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISINFECTION; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; MYCOBACTERIUM; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUALITY CONTROL; SALMONELLA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; RECYCLING; STANDARD;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; MICROBIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0037178912     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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