Microbial composition and antibiotic resistance of biofilms recovered from endotracheal tubes of mechanically ventilated patients

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 830, Issue , 2015, Pages 137-155

  Vandecandelaere, Ilse ^a   Coenye, Tom ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE DERIVATIVE; CARBAPENEM DERIVATIVE; CEFEPIME; CEFIXIME; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFOPERAZONE PLUS SULBACTAM; CEFOTAXIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; GATIFLOXACIN; GENTAMICIN; MEROPENEM; NETILMICIN; OFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POLYMYXIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TOBRAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BACTEROIDETES; BIOFILM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA; CLOSTRIDIA; ENDOTRACHEAL TUBE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; FUSARIUM; FUSOBACTERIA; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL ATTENUATION; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOBACTERIA; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; VENTILATED PATIENT; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIA; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIAL CONSORTIUM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ORA;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; HUMANS; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MICROBIAL CONSORTIA; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 84926656614     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: 22148019     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-11038-7_9     Document Type: Article

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