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Performance and impact of a multiplex PCR in ICU patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia or ventilated hospital-acquired pneumonia
2020-05-28
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background: Early appropriate antibiotic therapy reduces morbidity and mortality of severe pneumonia. However, the emergence of bacterial resistance requires the earliest use of antibiotics with the narrowest possible spectrum. The Unyvero Hospitalized Pneumonia (HPN, Curetis) test is a multiplex PCR (M-PCR) system detecting 21 bacteria and 19 resistance genes on respiratory samples wit...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 4d169f5e-be57-5994-b48a-3eb7597157df
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- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-17391/v2
