Investigation of oral opportunistic pathogens in independent living elderly Japanese

Gerodontology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ogawa, Taiji ^a   Ikebe, Kazunori ^a   Enoki, Kaori ^a   Murai, Shunsuke ^a   Maeda, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

aspiration pneumonia; opportunistic pathogens; oral health; saliva

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; MOUTH; OCCULT BLOOD; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALIVA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TONGUE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; JAPAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MORAXELLA (BRANHAMELLA) CATARRHALIS; MOUTH; OCCULT BLOOD; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SALIVA; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; TONGUE;

EID: 84861631230     PISSN: 07340664     EISSN: 17412358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-2358.2010.00449.x     Document Type: Article

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