Article
Phenotypic changes in the lipopolysaccharide of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli grown in milk-based enteral nutrition solutions.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) - 1 Jan 1999
Hodgson I, Stewart J, Fyfe L
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have shown enteral nutritional solutions (ENS) contaminated with large numbers of microorganisms from the environment or gastrointestinal (GI) tract of patients have caused respiratory infections, acute and chronic enteritis, and septicemia. The introduction of "closed" enteral f...
Topics
- Animals
- Colony Count, Microbial
- Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
- Enteral Nutrition
- Escherichia coli
- Food, Formulated
- Lipopolysaccharides
- Milk
- Phenotype
- Pseudomonas aeruginosa
