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Short vs. (vs) Prolonged Course of Therapy for Ventilator-associated Tracheitis (VAT) Caused by Non-lactose-fermenting Gram-negative Rods (NLFGNR) in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)

BACKGROUND: It is still unclear whether prolonged duration of therapy (DOT) for VAT might be protective against progression to pneumonia. From a stewardship view, shortening DOT may help to contain emergence of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) in PICU. To this effect, we sought to compare clinic...

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Autores principales: Fong, Karen, Witcher, Robert, Lighter-Fisher, Jennifer, Papadopoulos, John, Dubrovskaya, Yanina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630919/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.1308