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Detection and Quantitation of the Etiologic Agents of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Endotracheal Tube Aspirates From Patients in Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Mohammad Rahbar  and
Massoud Hajia
Mohammad Rahbar*
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, Research Center of Reference Laboratories of Iran, Tehran, Iran
Massoud Hajia
Affiliation:
Department of Medical Microbiology, Research Center of Reference Laboratories of Iran, Tehran, Iran
*
Department of Medical Microbiology, Research Center of Reference Laboratories of Iran, P.O. Box 16615-135, Tehran, Iran, (mhhf_rz@yahoo.com)
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 27 , Issue 8 , August 2006 , pp. 884 - 885
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2006

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