Publications on Infection Prevention

Find a selection of relevant publications, studies and Olympus white papers on endoscope reprocessing and infection prevention here.

The maintenance of dry storage conditions can help to prevent bacterial growth and preserve the cleanliness of the reprocessed endoscope.

Important facts why reprocessing of endoscopes as soon as possible after the use of procedures is essential.

Pros and cons to implementing an endoscope sampling and culturing program.

Gram-negative multidrug-resistant bacteria: German and international definitions, particularly threatening pathogens

Clostridioides difficile: Relevance in hospitals, Ribotypes and sporicidal reprocessing of endoscopes

Contamination risks of duodenoscopes and linear echoendoscopes systemically studied.

A study demonstrated for the first time the transmission of a colistin-resistant pathogen via a duodenoscope.

Prevalence rate of contaminated duodenoscopes investigated systematically in a study in the Netherlands.

Pilot study investigates how effectively SARS-CoV-2 is removed during reprocessing of endoscopes.

Outbreak of strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae with resistance to two reserve antibiotics.

Review reprocessing of flexible endoscope in regard to different types of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

Endoscopy: Sampling, culturing, and evaluating correctly.