Editorial response: Devising strategies for preventing nosocomial pneumonia - Should we ignore the stomach?

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 320-323

  Niederman, Michael S ^a   Craven, Donald E ^b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTESTINE FLORA; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH PH; CROSS INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; STOMACH;

CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; STOMACH;

EID: 0031085171     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/24.3.320     Document Type: Editorial

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