The following data were collected for all patients: demographics; pre-existing chronic diseases; admission diagnosis; ECMO indications and settings; fluid balance; and microbiological findings.
Surgical, extensive re-sectioning of the small bowel may be one of the risk factors for altered balance in the microbiological environment.
Research on human microbiome is fraught with numerous unanswered microbiological, clinical, and social questions, therefore balancing possible risks and benefits sometimes very difficult, if not impossible.
Samples and media preparation, inoculation and colony counts were done using standard microbiological methods (Buckle et al. 1989; Bartram and Balance 1996; FAO 2004).
The remaining balance of cases were diagnosed by means other than microbiological and thus no culture was available for sub-typing.
"It has two principal components: physical measurements and numerical models of moisture balance in mobile dunes, conducted in Qatar and Mauritania, and microbiological analyses of samples collected in those dunes, including DNA/RNA extraction and sequencing.
In recognising the potential limitations of PCR for detecting infection, it is also important to balance these against uncertainties in the current 'gold standard' of microbiological culture.
Skin has long been recognized to protect the organisms from deleterious environmental (physical, chemical, microbiological) agents, and is crucial for the maintenance of temperature, electrolyte and fluid balance.
Microcirculation improves with microbiological source control and resolution of the sepsis syndrome, the negativation of the fluid balance being a positive sign of sepsis resolution.
More importantly, autochthonous (resident) and allochthonous (transient) microbes maintain the delicate balance that prevents seemingly innocuous pathogens from gaining a foothold in the gut microbiological niche, leading to disease.
