Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the Oropharyngeal Ecosystem of Tube-Fed Patients

We evaluated whether elderly patients fed with nasogastric tubes (NGT) are predisposed to Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization in the oropharynx. Fifty-three patients on NGT feeding and 50 orally fed controls with similar clinical characteristics were studied. The tongue dorsum was swabbed and cultur...

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Autores principales: Leibovitz, Arthur, Dan, Michael, Zinger, Jonathan, Carmeli, Yehuda, Habot, Beni, Segal, Rephael
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2003
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12967493
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0908.030054

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3020605/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12967493
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid0908.030054

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