Outbreaks linked to duodenoscopes: Microbiological control should be improved

Endoscopy

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1058-

  Saliou, Philippe ^a   Baron, Raoul ^b  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM THIOSULFATE;

CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; DUODENOSCOPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; LETTER; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUODENOSCOPES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 84945973300     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1392650     Document Type: Letter

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