Vickie S. Baselski, Mahmoud El-Torky, Jacqueline J. Coalson, John P. Griffin, The Standardization of Criteria for Processing and Interpreting Laboratory Specimens in Patients with Suspected Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 13, No. 11, Proceedings of the First International Consensus Conference on the Clinical Investigation of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (Nov., 1992), pp. 657-666
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