Impact of ethylene oxide gas sterilization of duodenoscopes after a carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae outbreak

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 259-262

  Naryzhny, Igor ^a   Silas, Dean ^a   Chi, Kenneth ^a  

^a ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE OXIDE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; GAS;

AERATOR; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CLEARANCE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; COST; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; STERILIZER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; GAS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THERAPEUTIC USE;

CARBAPENEMS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISINFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DUODENOSCOPES; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ETHYLENE OXIDE; GASES; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; STERILIZATION;

EID: 84961123060     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2016.01.055     Document Type: Article

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