Is bacteriologic surveillance in endoscope reprocessing stringent enough?

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Published in Endoscopy on September 11, 2009

Authors

J Kovaleva1, N E L Meessen, F T M Peters, M H Been, J P Arends, R P Borgers, J E Degener

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Groningen, University of Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. j.kovaleva@mmb.umcg.nl

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