Surveillance tracheal aspirate cultures do not reliably predict bacteria cultured at the time of an acute respiratory infection in children with tracheostomy tubes

Chest

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 625-631

  Cline, Jay M ^a   Woods, Charles R ^c   Ervin, Sean E ^b   Rubin, Bruce K ^d   Kirse, Daniel J ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; TRACHEAL ASPIRATION PROCEDURE; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84857991131     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: 19313543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.10-2539     Document Type: Article

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