Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD): Is the game worth the candle?

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 236-241

  Van Essen, Einar H R ^a   De Jonge, Evert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

antibiotic resistance; respiratory tract infection (RTI); Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD); selective oropharyngeal decontamination (SOD)

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CHLORHEXIDINE; COLISTIN; POVIDONE IODINE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURVIVAL; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; YEAST;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MYCOSES; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 79955061921     PISSN: 10693424     EISSN: 10989048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1275536     Document Type: Article

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