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Invasive and non-invasive diagnostic approaches for microbiological diagnosis of hospital-acquired pneumonia

BACKGROUND: Data on the methods used for microbiological diagnosis of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) are mainly extrapolated from ventilator-associated pneumonia. HAP poses additional challenges for respiratory sampling, and the utility of sputum or distal sampling in HAP has not been comprehensi...

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Autores principales: Ranzani, Otavio T., Senussi, Tarek, Idone, Francesco, Ceccato, Adrian, Li Bassi, Gianluigi, Ferrer, Miquel, Torres, Antoni
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6379979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30777114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13054-019-2348-2