ERCP Scopes: What Can We Do to Prevent Infections?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 643-648

  Rutala, William A ^a,b   Weber, David J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE;

DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY;

CARBAPENEMS; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DUODENOSCOPES; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE;

EID: 84964696320     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.98     Document Type: Note

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