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Prevention of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia by Use of Oral Chlorhexidine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Luciano Silvestri*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency, Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Presidio Ospedaliero, Gorizia, Italy
Hendrick K. F. van Saene
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Marco Milanese
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency, Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Presidio Ospedaliero, Gorizia, Italy
Eraldo Zei
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency, Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Presidio Ospedaliero, Gorizia, Italy
Miranda Blazic
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency, Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Presidio Ospedaliero, Gorizia, Italy
*
Department of Emergency, Unit of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Presidio Ospedaliero di Gorizia, Via Vittorio Veneto 171, 34170 Gorizia, Italy (lucianosilvestri@yahoo.it)
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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