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There have been reports on infections associated with the use of inadequately disinfected fibreoptic instruments; Salmonella infections were described by Burkhardt (1976), Dean (1977), and Schliessler et al. (1980), Pseudomonas infections by Greene et al. (1974), Noy et al. (1977), and Ansink-Schipper et al. (1981). In spite of improvement in disinfection and sterilization procedures, disinfection of endoscopes has remained a problem. The instruments cannot be autoclaved at the usual temperature. Ethyleneoxide sterilisation, though effective, takes too long. Disinfection by recommended disinfectants such as 2~ aqueous glutaraldehyde is difficult because of the numerous and complicated channels in the instrument. We were asked to check the disinfecting capacity of a commercial endoscope washing machine, before it was to be put on the market. A colonoscope was used as the test instrument. This endoscope is technically complicated for, in addition to a biopsy channel, there are three other channels (for water, air and CO2) which end in one common channel at the distal part. The washing machine has connections only for disinfection of the biopsy and water channel. There are reservoirs

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Author

S. Y. Hofstra

Publisher

Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 0003-6072)

Published

1983

Language

EN

Field

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)