Effectiveness of flexible gastrointestinal endoscope reprocessing

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 309-312

  Ribeiro, Maíra Marques ^a   Oliveira, Adriana Cristina de ^b,c   Ribeiro, Silma Maria Cunha Pinheiro ^b   Watanabe, Evandro ^d   Stoianoff, Maria Aparecida de Resende ^b   Ferreira, José Antônio Guimarães ^b  

^a Hospital Unimed   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Ministério de Ciência Tecnologia e Inovação Salvador   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAMPLING; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BIOPSY; COLONOSCOPY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTAMINATION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MYCOBACTERIUM; PATHOGEN LOAD; PENICILLIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SUCTION; WATER SAMPLING; YEAST;

EID: 84873638746     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669518     Document Type: Article

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