Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 437-449 , September 2008

Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Problems with diagnosis and therapy

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doi: 10.1016/j.bpa.2008.05.002

Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology
Volume 22, Issue 3 , Pages 437-449 , September 2008

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