Oropharyngeal carriage and lower airway colonisation/infection in 45 tracheotomised children

Thorax

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1015-1020

  Morar, P ^a   Singh, V ^a   Makura, Z ^a   Jones, A S ^a   Baines, P B ^a   Selby, A ^a   Sarginson, R ^a   Hughes, J ^a   Van Saene, R ^a  

^a ALDER HEY CHILDREN'S NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; MICROORGANISM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THROAT CULTURE; TIME; TRACHEOSTOMY; WARD;

ADOLESCENT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; INTENSIVE CARE, NEONATAL; MALE; OROPHARYNX; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0036897836     PISSN: 00406376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/thorax.57.12.1015     Document Type: Article

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