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Metadata
Title
Reply to Petros et al.: Gut overgrowth harms the critically ill
Authors
Guy J. Oudhuis
Dennis C. Bergmans
Ellen E. Stobberingh
Annelies Verbon
Publication date
01-09-2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2011
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-011-2288-z

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