The endoscopes allegedly responsible for a wave of "superbug" outbreaks had been redesigned in recent years in the hopes of making them easier to clean and less likely to spread bacteria from patient to patient, ABC News has learned, but the modifications might have created different challenges as the scopes continue to transmit antibiotic-resistant bugs. Patients undergoing procedures with duodenoscopes at hospitals in Los Angeles, Connecticut, Pittsburgh and Illinois have come down with antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections over the last two years, according to local health authorities and the Journal of the American Medical Association. All three manufacturers of these scopes had redesigned of them within the last decade, enclosing a complex area at their tips to minimize contact with patients' bacteria, ABC News has learned. While the tip is enclosed, it is not "sealed like a bubble or a can" because tiny tools need to emerge to perform biopsies and complete other tasks, said Dr. J. Todd Weber, chief of the prevention and response branch in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's division of healthcare quality promotion.
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