Nosocomial infections in adult intensive-care units [3] (multiple letters)

Lancet

Volumn 362, Issue 9382, 2003, Pages 493-494

  Teramoto, Shinji ^a   Yamamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Kawaguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Ouchi, Yasuyoshi ^a   Arya, Subhash C ^b   Agarwal, Nirmala ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b SANT PARMANAND HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIA; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT; LUNG; OROPHARYNX; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDATION; SINUSITIS; STOMACH INTUBATION; TRACHEA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ADULT; AGE; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG STORAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NOTE; PHARMACOKINETICS; STANDARD; DEVICE REMOVAL; DIGESTIVE TRACT INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; NOSE; VENTILATOR;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG STORAGE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY; DEVICE REMOVAL; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; NOSE; OROPHARYNX; PNEUMONIA; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0043237838     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)14080-9     Document Type: Letter

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