Risk of infection transmission in curvilinear array echoendoscopes: results of a prospective reprocessing and culture registry

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 390-397.e1

  Chapman, Christopher G ^a   Siddiqui, Uzma D ^a   Manzano, Maricarmen ^b   Konda, Vani J ^a   Murillo, Cynthia ^a   Landon, Emily M ^a   Waxman, Irving ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CANCEROLOGÍA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CARBAPENEM RESISTANT ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; ECHOENDOSCOPE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HAFNIA ALVEI; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL GROWTH; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REGISTER; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SPHINGOMONAS PAUCIMOBILIS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICES; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; SPHINGOMONAS;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CROSS INFECTION; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; DISINFECTION; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HAFNIA ALVEI; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS PUTIDA; REGISTRIES; SPHINGOMONAS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA;

EID: 85009168048     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2016.07.049     Document Type: Article

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