Candida colonization of respiratory tract: To treat or not to treat, will we ever get an answer?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1381-1384

  De Pascale, Gennaro ^a   Antonelli, Massimo ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

BIOFILM; CANDIDA; EDITORIAL; ERADICATION THERAPY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MICROBIAL COLONIZATION; NONHUMAN; PULMONARY CANDIDIASIS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

EID: 84906937369     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3364-y     Document Type: Editorial

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