Finding the hidden target in Pseudomonas aeruginosa management

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2675-2676

  Lisboa, Thiago ^a   Rello, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

Immunization; Pneumonia; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Respiratory infection; Vaccination; Ventilator associated pneumonia; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

VIRULENCE FACTOR; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; EDITORIAL; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; NOSE SECRETION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; TRACHEA; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; TRACHEA;

EID: 53049085174     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181833f63     Document Type: Editorial

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