Post written by Christopher G. Chapman, MD, from the Center for Endoscopic Research and Therapeutics (CERT) at University of Chicago Medicine. The focus of this study was to determine the yield of routine bacterial surveillance cultures of post-high-level disinfection (HLD) reprocessed curvilinear array (CLA) echoendoscopes. The impetus for this study was the relative lack of …

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