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Multisociety Guideline on Reprocessing Flexible GI Endoscopes: 2011

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bret T. Petersen ,
Jennifer Chennat ,
Jonathan Cohen ,
Peter B. Cotton ,
David A. Greenwald ,
Thomas E. Kowalski ,
Mary L. Krinsky ,
Walter G. Park ,
Irving M. Pike  and
Joseph Romagnuolo
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 32 , Issue 6 , June 2011 , pp. 527 - 537
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