Do conventional cleaning and disinfection techniques avoid the risk of endoscopic Helicobacter pylori transmission?

Endoscopy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 295-299

  Nurnberg M ^a   Schulz, H J ^a   Ruden H ^b   Vogt, K ^b  

^a Oskar Ziethen Hospital   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTARALDEHYDE; UREASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLEANING; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INOCULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEROLOGY; STOMACH BIOPSY; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT;

AGED; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GLUTARAL; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0346665611     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2003-38149     Document Type: Article

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