Duodenoscope decontamination validation study

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 110-111

  Alsaffar, L ^a   McCrudden, P R ^a   Hayter, R ^a   Kavanagh, M ^a  

^a ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE;

ASEPSIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVICE INFECTION; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPE WASHER DISINFECTOR; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GLASS BOTTLE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA INFECTION; LETTER; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS KOREENSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS; VALIDATION STUDY; BACTERIUM; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BACTERIA; DECONTAMINATION; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPES; HUMANS;

EID: 84952988831     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: 15322939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2015.08.006     Document Type: Letter

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