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. 2020 May 15;201(10):1315-1316.
doi: 10.1164/rccm.201911-2226LE.

2019 Community-acquired Pneumonia Treatment Guidelines: There Is a Need for a Change toward More Parsimonious Antibiotic Use

Benedikt Huttner  1   2   3 , Bernadette Cappello  1 , Graham Cooke  4 , Sumanth Gandra  5 , Stephan Harbarth  3 , Monica Imi  6 , Mark Loeb  7 , Marc Mendelson  8 , Lorenzo Moja  1 , Céline Pulcini  9 , Mike Sharland  10 , Evelina Tacconnelli  11 , Mei Zeng  12 , Nicola Magrini  1
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2019 Community-acquired Pneumonia Treatment Guidelines: There Is a Need for a Change toward More Parsimonious Antibiotic Use

Benedikt Huttner et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. .
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