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. 2025 Apr;51(4):788-790.
doi: 10.1007/s00134-025-07842-z. Epub 2025 Mar 10.

Guideline-compliant empirical antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia during the pandemic: a European multicenter retrospective study

Nicolas Dognon  1 , Romain Malapelle  1 , Maxime Leroy  2 , Keyvan Razazi  3 , Saad Nseir  4   5 ; coVAPgate study group
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Guideline-compliant empirical antibiotic therapy for ventilator-associated pneumonia during the pandemic: a European multicenter retrospective study

Nicolas Dognon et al. Intensive Care Med. 2025 Apr.
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Declarations. Conflicts of interest: ND, RM, ML, SN declare that they have no conflicts of interest; KR received lecture fees from MSD, Shionogi, and a travel grant from Pfizer outside the submitted work.

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