Delayed reprocessing of endoscopes

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 853-854

  Agrawal, Deepak ^a   Muscarella, Lawrence F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Custom Ultrasonics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPE; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79953244793     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2010.09.028     Document Type: Letter

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