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Infectious diseases linked to cross-contamination of flexible endoscopes

Flexible endoscopes are widely used to examine, diagnose, and treat medical disorders. While the risk of endoscopy-related transmission of infection is estimated to be very low, more health care-associated infections are related to contaminated endoscopes than to any other medical device. Flexible e...

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Autores principales: Kenters, Nikki, Huijskens, Elisabeth G. W., Meier, Corianne, Voss, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: © Georg Thieme Verlag KG 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4554517/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26355428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0034-1392099