Reprocessing flexible endoscopes: Origin of standards, overview of structure/function, and review of recent outbreaks

Disinfection and Decontamination: Principles, Applications and Related Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 177-214

  Antonucci, Terri A ^a   Williams, Nicole ^b   Robinson, Nancy A ^a  

^a STERIS Corporation   (United States)

^b Instruments Corporation   (United States)

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