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Concerns Associated With Cleaning Robotic Surgical Instruments—Response to Wallace

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2017

Yuhei Saito ,
Hiroshi Yasuhara ,
Satoshi Murakoshi ,
Takami Komatsu ,
Kazuhiko Fukatsu  and
Yushi Uetera
Yuhei Saito*
Affiliation:
Surgical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroshi Yasuhara
Affiliation:
Surgical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Satoshi Murakoshi
Affiliation:
Surgical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Takami Komatsu
Affiliation:
Surgical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Kazuhiko Fukatsu
Affiliation:
Surgical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Yushi Uetera
Affiliation:
Surgical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
*
Address correspondence to Yuhei Saito, MS, Surgical Center, The University of Tokyo Hospital, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-8655 (saitoyu-ope@h.u-tokyo.ac.jp).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 8 , August 2017 , pp. 1014 - 1015
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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