Translocation of gut flora and its role in sepsis

Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 334-342

  Vaishnavi, C ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial translocation; gut microflora; immunosuppression; multi organ failure; sepsis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL DNA; BILE SALT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CISAPRIDE; ENDOTOXIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 6; LYSOZYME; OXYGEN RADICAL; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; PROPRANOLOL; PROSTAGLANDIN; RNA 16S; SECRETORY IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SUCRALFATE; TECHNETIUM 99M; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; URSODEOXYCHOLIC ACID; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE PANCREATITIS; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; BIFIDOBACTERIACEAE; BLOOD; BRUSH BORDER; BURN; CANDIDA; CIRCULATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GASTRIC SUCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HEMORRHAGIC SHOCK; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTESTINAL DYSMOTILITY; INTESTINE EPITHELIUM CELL; INTESTINE FLORA; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE MUCOSA PERMEABILITY; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; KWASHIORKOR; LACTOBACILLUS; LAPAROTOMY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH VESSEL; LYMPHOMA; MESENTERIC ISCHEMIA; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; ORGANISM COLONY; OUTER MEMBRANE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD; RADIATION; REPERFUSION INJURY; RETICULOENDOTHELIAL SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; STRESS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TIGHT JUNCTION; URINARY EXCRETION; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY;

BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HUMANS; SEPSIS;

EID: 84885400792     PISSN: 02550857     EISSN: 19983646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0255-0857.118870     Document Type: Article

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