The Food and Drug Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and American Society for Microbiology yesterday released voluntary standardized for duodenoscope surveillance sampling and culturing, which update a 2015 CDC interim protocol. 鈥淔or health care facilities that choose to implement duodenoscope surveillance sampling and culturing, these protocols can be used to help monitor the quality of a facility鈥檚 endoscope reprocessing procedures,鈥 the agency .

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