Analysis of microbial contamination during use and reprocessing of surgical instruments and sterile packaging systems

• Lena Dreikausen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lena.dreikausen@aesculap.de

  Affiliation Front End Innovation & Materials (FEIM), Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8363-4137

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• Bernd Blender,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Front End Innovation & Materials (FEIM), Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany

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• Milena Trifunovic-Koenig,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Infection Control and Infection Prevention, Health Care Association District of Constance, Konstanz, Germany

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• Florian Salm,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Infection Control and Infection Prevention, Health Care Association District of Constance, Konstanz, Germany

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• Stefan Bushuven,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Infection Control and Infection Prevention, Health Care Association District of Constance, Konstanz, Germany

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• Bianka Gerber,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Anesthesiology, Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Pain Therapy, Hegau Bodensee Hospital Singen, Singen, Germany

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• Matthias Henke

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Front End Innovation & Materials (FEIM), Aesculap AG, Tuttlingen, Germany

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