Microbiologic profile of flexible endoscope disinfection in two Brazilian hospitals

Arquivos de Gastroenterologia

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 255-258

  Machado, Alexandre P ^a   Pimenta, Ana Teresa Mancini ^b   Contijo, Paulo P ^b   Geocze, Stephan ^a   Fischman, Olga ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disinfection; Endoscopes; Equipment contamination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BRAZIL; BRONCHOSCOPE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CANDIDA GUILLIERMONDII; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CLEANING; COLONOSCOPE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS; NONHUMAN; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BRAZIL; BRONCHOSCOPES; CANDIDA; CROSS INFECTION; DETERGENTS; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HOSPITALS; HUMANS;

EID: 34147134901     PISSN: 00042803     EISSN: 16784219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0004-28032006000400002     Document Type: Article

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