Ventilator-associated pneumonia in a surgical intensive care unit: epidemiology, etiology and comparison of three bronchoscopic methods for microbiological specimen sampling.

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Published in Crit Care on April 27, 2001

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H J Woske1, T Röding, I Schulz, H Lode

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1: Hospital Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany. hans-juergen.woske@t-online.de

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