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Qualitative cultures in ventilator-associated pneumonia – can they be used with confidence?
The sensitivity and specificity of the radiographic and clinical evidence used to diagnose ventilator-associated pneumonia vary depending on the number of clinical criteria present. Bacteriological confirmation that rules out other diseases can be achieved by quantitative or qualitative cultures of...
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BioMed Central
2004
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1065075/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15566608 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc2988 |