Patterns and dynamics of airway colonisation in mechanically-ventilated patients

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 476-480

  Berdal, Jan Erik ^a   Bjornholt J ^a   Blomfeldt, A ^a   Smith Erichsen, N ^a   Bukholm, G ^a  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Airway colonisation; Colonisation; Genotyping; Mechanical ventilation; Surveillance; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; HUMAN; LUNG LAVAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH FLORA; OROPHARYNX; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SAMPLING; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROAT CULTURE; TRACHEA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HAEMOPHILUS PARAINFLUENZAE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 34147133938     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2006.01678.x     Document Type: Article

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