The emerging role of the microbiota in the ICU

Nora Suzanne Wolff; Floor Hugenholtz; Willem Joost Wiersinga

doi:10.1186/s13054-018-1999-8

The emerging role of the microbiota in the ICU

Crit Care. 2018 Mar 20;22(1):78. doi: 10.1186/s13054-018-1999-8.

Authors

Nora Suzanne Wolff¹, Floor Hugenholtz¹, Willem Joost Wiersinga^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
² Center for Experimental and Molecular Medicine, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands. w.j.wiersinga@amc.uva.nl.
³ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. w.j.wiersinga@amc.uva.nl.

Abstract

This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2018. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2018 . Further information about the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine is available from http://www.springer.com/series/8901 .

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Critical Illness / mortality
Critical Illness / therapy
Humans
Intensive Care Units / organization & administration
Microbiota / immunology
Microbiota / physiology*
Nutritional Status
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / metabolism

Substances

RNA, Ribosomal, 16S