Reprocessing flexible gastrointestinal endoscopes after a period of disuse: Is it necessary?

Endoscopy

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 737-739

  Vergis, Ashley S ^a,b   Thomson, D ^a   Pieroni, P ^a   Dhalla, S ^a  

^a Brandon Regional Health Centre   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; COLONOSCOPE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATOBILIARY DISEASE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STORAGE; BACTERIAL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST CONTROL; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; RECYCLING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COST SAVINGS; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34548040745     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2007-966644     Document Type: Article

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