Processing urinary endoscopes in a low-temperature steam and formaldehyde autoclave.
Open Access
- 1 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 30 (3) , 269-274
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.30.3.269
Abstract
Methods of disinfection and sterilisation of urinary endoscopes are considered. A small mobile low-temperature steam and formaldehyde autoclave (Miniclave 80) is evaluated and shown to be satisfactory for this purpose as judged by a variety of relevant microbiological test pieces.Keywords
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