Editorial response: Selective decontamination of the digestive tract in acute severe pancreatitis - An indication whose time has come

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 817-818

  Nathens, Avery B ^b   Rotstein, Ori D ^a,b  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CROSS INFECTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; NOTE; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS; PATHOLOGY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CROSS INFECTION; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; NECROSIS; PANCREAS; PANCREATITIS;

EID: 0031255605     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515547     Document Type: Article

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