Are probiotics actually useful in decreasing VAP rate?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan.
² Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan. ohshimos@hiroshima-u.ac.jp.

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Kei Suzuki et al. Intensive Care Med. 2016 Oct.

. 2016 Oct;42(10):1643-1644.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-016-4419-z. Epub 2016 Sep 12.

¹ Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan.
² Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi, Minami-ku, Hiroshima, 734-8551, Japan. ohshimos@hiroshima-u.ac.jp.

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