Clinico-microbiological profile of healthcare associated pneumonia in critically ill patients at level-I trauma centre of India

INTRODUCTION: Device-associated infections constitute the majority of health-care infections in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Trauma patients are more prone to acquire such infections; ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) being the most common Health care associated infections (HAI) in ICU has serio...

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Main Authors: Minu Kumari, Neha Rastogi, Rajesh Malhotra, Purva Mathur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2018-10-01
Series:Journal of Laboratory Physicians
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/JLP.JLP_85_18