The use of channel-purge storage for gastrointestinal endoscopes reduces microbial contamination

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1100-1102

  Saliou, Philippe ^a   Cholet, Franck ^a   Jézéquel, Julien ^a   Robaszkiewicz, Michel ^a,b   Le Bars, Hervé ^a   Baron, Raoul ^a  

^a BREST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER PITII; ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; COLONOSCOPE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE ENDOSCOPE; DISINFECTION; DISINFECTION SYSTEM; DUODENOSCOPE; ECHOENDOSCOPE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FRANCE; GASTROSCOPE; GENERAL MEDICAL DEVICE; HEAT SENSITIVE ENDOSCOPE STORAGE CABINET; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STORAGE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; BACTERIAL COUNT; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; PROCEDURES; RECYCLING; STANDARDS;

COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTION; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENVIRONMENT, CONTROLLED; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; INFECTION CONTROL;

EID: 84945972601     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.139     Document Type: Article

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