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2022, Journal of Hospital InfectionCitation Excerpt :Of these studies, seven reported that endoscopes were contaminated due to the failure in repro-cessing [8,11–14,16,20]. There were 34 further outbreaks and case reports [57–90] (Appendix 6) which did not meet the inclusion criteria because they reported other sources of outbreaks such as reprocessing failure due to lapses in one or more steps in the disinfection [59–61,63,68,71,77,79,82,85,86], or contamination involving faulty or inappropriately designed endoscopes [62,63,66,72,78,79,83,87,90], and contaminated endoscopes when there were no evident lapses in reprocessing [58,64,67,69,84,88]. Since the previous guidance was published, there were no outbreaks occurring in the UK where the final rinse water was implicated as a source.
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