Endotracheal tubes: The conduit for oral and nasal microbial communities to the lungs

Anesthesiology

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 224-225

  Jacobs, Richard ^a   Wiener Kronish, Jeanine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ASPIRATION; BACTERIAL STRAIN; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LUNG; MICROFLORA; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TOOTH PLAQUE; VACCINATION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; CROSS INFECTION; LUNG DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOUTH; NOSE CAVITY; NOTE;

CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; LUNG DISEASES; MOUTH; NASAL CAVITY;

EID: 33644945525     PISSN: 00033022     EISSN: 15281175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000542-200602000-00003     Document Type: Editorial

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