Saliva secretion and oral flora in prolonged nasogastric tube-fed elderly patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 329-332

  Leibovitz, Arthur ^a   Plotnikov, Galina ^a   Habot, Beni ^a   Rosenberg, Mel ^b   Wolf, Andi ^b   Nagler, Refael ^c   Graf, Eran ^d   Segal, Refael ^a,b  

^a Tel Aviv University Sackler Faculty of Medicine   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Elderly; Nasogastric feeding; Oral microbiota; Salivary studies

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); RISKS;

TUBE FEEDING;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

AMYLASE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIOXIDANT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM; CHLORINE; DIURETIC AGENT; GLUCOSE; MAGNESIUM; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; PROTEIN; SODIUM; UREA; URIC ACID;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOUTH FLORA; NOSE FEEDING; OROPHARYNX; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SALIVA; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SALIVATION; STROKE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; MOUTH; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA, ASPIRATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; SALIVATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037983927     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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