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Monitoring of Endoscope Reprocessing: Accumulating Data but Best Practices Remain Undefined

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Bret T. Petersen
Bret T. Petersen*
Affiliation:
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
*
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55902 (petersen.bret@mayo.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 8 , August 2014 , pp. 995 - 997
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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