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Epidemiology of Nosocomial Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

David L. George
David L. George*
Affiliation:
Infection Control Division, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee
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Infection Control Div., Baptist Memorial Hospital, 899 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38146
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , March 1993 , pp. 163 - 169
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1993

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