A double-reprocessing high-level disinfection protocol does not eliminate positive cultures from the elevators of duodenoscopes

Endoscopy

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2018, Pages 588-596

  Rex, Douglas K ^a   Sieber, Marnie ^a   Lehman, Glen A ^a   Webb, Douglas ^a   Schmitt, Bryan ^b   Kressel, Amy Beth ^a   Bang, Ji Young ^a   Easler, Jeffery ^a   McHenry, Lee ^a   El Hajj, Ihab ^a   Fogel, Evan ^a   Watkins, James ^a   Sherman, Stuart ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Laboratory Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOAMING AGENT; DISINFECTANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISINFECTION; HIGH LEVEL DISINFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTIOUS AGENT; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; BACILLUS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; DEVICES; DUODENOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCOCCUS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; RECYCLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

BACILLUS; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; DISINFECTANTS; DISINFECTION; DUODENOSCOPES; ENTEROCOCCUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT REUSE; MICROCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 85038381232     PISSN: 0013726X     EISSN: 14388812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-122378     Document Type: Article

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