Endoscope storage time: Assessment of microbial colonization up to 21 days after reprocessing

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1150-1154

  Brock, Andrew S ^a   Steed, Lisa L ^b   Freeman, Janice ^a   Garry, Bernadette ^a   Malpas, Phyllis ^a   Cotton, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ARTICLE; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BACILLUS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLONOSCOPE; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DUODENOSCOPE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FIBEROSCOPE; GASTROSCOPE; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; MICROCOCCUS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STORAGE; TIME; BACTERIAL COUNT; CANDIDA; COST CONTROL; ENDOSCOPE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STREPTOCOCCUS; TIME FACTOR;

CANDIDA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; COST SAVINGS; ENDOSCOPES; ENTEROCOCCUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STREPTOCOCCUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84927561327     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2014.09.053     Document Type: Article

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