Intensive care medicine
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Intensive care medicine · Jul 2005
Review Meta AnalysisImpact of selective decontamination of the digestive tract on fungal carriage and infection: systematic review of randomized controlled trials.
To determine the impact of the antifungal component of selective decontamination of the digestive tract on fungal carriage, infection and fungaemia. ⋯ Antifungals, as part of selective decontamination of the digestive tract, reduce fungal carriage and infection but not fungaemia in critically ill patients and may justify the inclusion of an antifungal component in the decontamination protocol.