Is bacteriologic surveillance in endoscope reprocessing stringent enough?

Endoscopy

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 913-916

  Kovaleva, J ^a   Meessen, N E L ^a   Peters, F T M ^a   Been, M H ^a   Arends, J P ^a   Borgers, R P ^a   Degener, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COLISTIN; ETHYLENE OXIDE; MEROPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOFILM; BLOOD; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMMON BILE DUCT STENOSIS; DISINFECTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR TYPING; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION;

AGED; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DUODENOSCOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; SEPSIS;

EID: 70349665415     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1215086     Document Type: Article

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