Gastrointestinal endoscopes a need to shift from disinfection to sterilization?

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 312, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1405-1406

  Rutala, William A ^a   Weber, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL SPORE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE MAINTENANCE; DEVICE SAFETY; DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPE; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPE; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; UNITED STATES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE;

CARBAPENEMS; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84907693394     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.12559     Document Type: Editorial

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