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Introduction to the Consensus Conference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

G. Umberto Meduri  and
Waldemar G. Johanson Jr.
G. Umberto Meduri
Affiliation:
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The University of Tennessee, Memphis
Waldemar G. Johanson Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark
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Proceedings of the First International Consensus Conference on the Clinical Investigation of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 11 , November 1992 , pp. 633 - 634
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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