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Effects of nasogastric tube on oral microbiome among long-term care patients
2022-09-04
Abstract excerpt
Dysbiosis of oral microbiome causes chronic diseases including dental caries and periodontitis, which frequently affects elderly, frail patients receiving long-term care. Severely disabled patients may require nutritional supply via nasogastric (NG) tube, which impacts patients’ oral condition and possibly microbial composition. However, little is known about the effect of NG tube on oral microbes and its potentia...
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- Literature Corpus work
- b6275008-d629-52e4-9a46-c633f39df370
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.09.02.22279554
