Impact of synbiotics on the intestinal flora of critically ill patients with multiple injuries

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 90-91

  Koutelidakis, Ioannis M ^a   Bezirtzoglou, Eugenia ^b   Giamarellos Bourboulis, Evangelos J ^c   Grosomanidis, Vassileios ^a   Kotzampassi, Katerina ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2000FORTE; BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PLACEBO; SYNBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INHIBITION KINETICS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE FLORA; LACTOBACILLUS PARACASEI; LACTOBACILLUS PLANTARUM; LETTER; LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PEDIOCOCCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FECES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PLACEBOS; PROBIOTICS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953025217     PISSN: 09248579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijantimicag.2010.02.012     Document Type: Letter

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