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Preventing medical-device–borne outbreaks: High-level disinfection policy for duodenoscopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2020

Preeti Mehrotra Open the ORCID record for Preeti Mehrotra [Opens in a new window] ,
David J. Weber  and
Ameet Sarpatwari
Preeti Mehrotra*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases and Silverman Institute for Health Care Quality and Safety, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
David J. Weber
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Ameet Sarpatwari
Affiliation:
Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
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Author for correspondence: Dr Preeti Mehrotra, E-mail: pmehrotr@bidmc.harvard.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , March 2021 , pp. 334 - 337
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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