Bacterial translocation: Overview of mechanisms and clinical impact

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 464-471

  Balzan, Silvio ^a,b   De Almeida Quadros, Claudio ^a   De Cleva, Roberto ^a   Zilberstein, Bruno ^a   Cecconello, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Department of Surgery   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute pancreatitis; Bacterial translocation; Cirrhosis; Gut barrier; Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome; Systemic inflammatory response syndrome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; MORPHINE; NITRIC OXIDE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACUTE HEMORRHAGIC PANCREATITIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CAPILLARY ENDOTHELIUM; CELL HYPOXIA; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENTERITIS; EPITHELIUM CELL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE FUNCTION DISORDER; INTESTINE INJURY; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; INTESTINE LYMPHATIC TISSUE; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; INTESTINE PERFUSION; INTESTINE VILLUS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; MEASUREMENT; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; REVIEW; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

EID: 33947223688     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: 14401746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.2007.04933.x     Document Type: Review

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