Epidemiological and microbiological analysis of ventilator-associated pneumonia patients in a public teaching hospital

Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is the most commonly-acquired infection in patients in intensive care units. We analyzed epidemiological and microbiological characteristics and the outcome, in a cohort of critically-ill patients with confirmed diagnosis of VAP. All patients who had been on mec...

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Main Authors: João Manoel da Silva Júnior, Ederlon Rezende, Thaís Guimarães, Edvaldo V. dos Campos, Luiz André Magno, Lívia Consorti, Renata Andréa Pietro Pereira, Maria de Lourdes Nascimento, João Silva de Mendonça
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702007000500009&lng=en&tlng=en