surveillance for duodenoscope reprocessing 1235 acknowledgments
WethankGerlindeWeilguny,RN(in charge of reprocessing at the endoscopy unit of the Vienna General Hospital), for her support during this retrospective study. Financial support. The research fund of the Division of Hospital Hygiene,
Medical University of Vienna. Potential conflicts of interest. All authors report no conflicts of interest
relevant to this article. Affiliations: 1. Department of Hospital Hygiene and Infection Control,
Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 2. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine III, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. Address correspondence to Elisabeth Presterl,MD, Clinical Institute ofHospital Hygiene, Vienna General Hospital, Medical University of Vienna, Waehringer Guertel 18-20, 1090 Vienna, Austria (
elisabeth.presterl@
meduniwien.ac.at).
Received April 8, 2015; accepted June 1, 2015; electronically published
June 22, 2015 © 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 0899-823X/2015/3610-0015. DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.146
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