A quarantine process for the resolution of duodenoscope-associated transmission of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 477-483

  Ross, Andrew S ^a   Baliga, Christopher ^a   Verma, Punam ^a   Duchin, Jeffrey ^b   Gluck, Michael ^a  

^a VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH SEATTLE AND KING COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLONE; COMORBIDITY; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPE; DUODENOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIST; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; ERGONOMICS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE DUODENOSCOPE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUARANTINE; STANDARDS; TRANSMISSION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; DUODENOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUARANTINE;

EID: 84939260228     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2015.04.036     Document Type: Article

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