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Tea as a Source of Acinetobacter baumannii Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thomas Hauer
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Daniel Jonas
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Markus Dettenkofer
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Franz D. Daschner
Affiliation:
Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1999

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