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Clinical Metagenomics for the Management of Hospital- and Healthcare-Acquired Pneumonia
1 Mar 2016
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The increasing burden of multidrug-resistant bacteria affects the management of several infections. In order to prescribe adequate antibiotics, clinicians facing severe infections such as hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) need to promptly identify the pathogens and know their antibiotic susceptibility profiles (AST), which with conventional microbiology currently requires 24 and 48 h, respectively. Clinical...
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