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Pnina Shitrit1,2, Michal Meirson3, Gad Mendelson4

  • 1Infectious Diseases Unit, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
|October 21, 2015
PubMed
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Keywords:
bundlelong-term care facilitylong-term ventilationventilation-associated pneumonia

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