Risk of bacterial exposure to the endoscopist's face during endoscopy

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 818-824

  Johnston, Elyse R ^a,b   Habib Bein, Nadia ^a   Dueker, Jeffrey M ^a,b   Quiroz, Barbara ^a   Corsaro, Enrico ^a   Ambrogio, Megan ^a   Kingsley, Michael ^a,b   Papachristou, Georgios I ^a,b   Kreiss, Christianna ^a   Khalid, Asif ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; COLONOSCOPY; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIST; GASTROENTEROLOGIST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DIGESTIVE TRACT ENDOSCOPY; ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASK; MICROBIOLOGY;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BACTERIA; COLONOSCOPY; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOSCOPY, DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; GASTROENTEROLOGISTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MASKS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 85059362701     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: 10976779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gie.2018.10.034     Document Type: Article

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