High Prevalence Rate of Microbial Contamination in Patient-Ready Gastrointestinal Endoscopes in Tehran, Iran: an Alarming Sign for the Occurrence of Severe Outbreaks

High Prevalence Rate of Microbial Contamination in Patient-Ready Gastrointestinal Endoscopes in Tehran, Iran: an Alarming Sign for the Occurrence of Severe Outbreaks

ABSTRACT An alarmingly increasing number of outbreaks caused by contaminated gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopes are being reported as a particularly concerning issue. This study is the first large-scale multicenter survey to evaluate the contamination of GI endoscopes in Tehran, Iran. This multicenter...

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Main Authors: Hamidreza Houri, Hamid Asadzadeh Aghdaei, Sepideh Firuzabadi, Babak Khorsand, Fatemeh Soltanpoor, Maedeh Rafieepoor, Mohammad Tanhaei, Ghazal Soleymani, Masoumeh Azimirad, Amir Sadeghi, Nasser Ebrahimi Daryani, Farhad Zamani, Ramin Talaei, Abbas Yadegar, Seyed Reza Mohebi, Ghazal Sherkat, Mehrdad Hagh Azalli, Habib Malekpour, Gholamreza Hemmasi, Mohammad Reza Zali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-10-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
gastrointestinal endoscopes
health care-associated infections
microbial contamination
microbiological surveillance
multidrug resistance
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01897-22

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.01897-22

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