Ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: cap your needles!

Editorial

Alan R Hauser. Crit Care Med. 2012 Aug.

. 2012 Aug;40(8):2503-4.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318258e5bb.

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