TY - JOUR T1 - Endoscopes used in positive and critically ill patients are SARS-CoV-2 negative at virological assessment JF - Gut JO - Gut SP - 1629 LP - 1631 DO - 10.1136/gutjnl-2020-323577 VL - 70 IS - 9 AU - Ivo Boškoski AU - Anna Di Gemma AU - Maria Valeria Matteo AU - Fabio Grilli AU - Paola Cattani AU - Guido Costamagna Y1 - 2021/09/01 UR - http://gut.bmj.com/content/70/9/1629.abstract N2 - The risk of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in endoscopy is not only between patients and endoscopy staff but is also through inadequately reprocessed endoscopes. There are no studies that could confirm the efficacy of current ways of endoscope reprocessing on the elimination of SARS-CoV-2. The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the efficacy of high disinfection of endoscopes with peracetic acid on eliminating SARS-CoV-2, but surprisingly we found that the virus cannot be detected on any part of endoscopes used in critically ill patients due to SARS-CoV-2 and this was the same for all types of endoscopies and procedures. If confirmed in larger studies, these findings will probably open a new scenario in the overall understanding of the real impact of the virus. ER -