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Public health response to a large-scale endoscopy infection control lapse in a nonhospital clinic

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether transmission of blood-borne pathogens (BBPs) (hepatitis B virus [HBV], hepatitis C virus [HCV] and HIV) occurred as a result of endoscopy reprocessing failures identified during an inspection of a nonhospital endoscopy clinic in 2011. METHODS: The present analysis was...

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Autores principales: Willmore, Jacqueline, Ellis, Edward, Etches, Vera, Labrecque, Lise, Osiowy, Carla, Andonov, Anton, McDermaid, Cameron, Majury, Anna, Achonu, Camille, Maher, Maurica, MacLean, Brenda, Levy, Isra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pulsus Group Inc 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4419818/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26015789