Diagnosis of bacterial pulmonary infections with quantitative protected catheter cultures obtained during bronchoscopy.

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Published in J Clin Microbiol on February 01, 1983

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H M Pollock, E L Hawkins, J R Bonner, T Sparkman, J B Bass

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