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Nosocomial pneumonia : strategies for management / edited by Jordi Rello - Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, c2007 - xv, 296 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Healthcare-associated pneumonia : epidemiology, microbiology, and clinical outcomes / Marcos I. Restrepo and Antonio Anzuelo -- Prevention of hospital-acquired pneumonia / Rafael Sierra and Antonio Gordillo -- Role of the microbiology laboratory in the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia / Emilio Bouza, Almudena Burillo, and Patricia Munoz -- Pathophysiology of pneumonia / Amalia Alcon ... [et al.] -- Clinical approach to the patient with hospital-acquired pneumonia / Miguel Gallego and Jordi Rello -- Pneumonia due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Jordi Valles and Dolors Marisca -- Hospital acquired-pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus / Despoina Koulenti and Kemal Agbaht -- Nosocomial pneumonia by Acinetobacter baumannii / Jose Garnacho-Montero, Ma Eugenia Pachon, and Jose M. Cisneros

ISBN: 9780470059555 (alk. paper) RM486.00 0470059559 (alk. paper)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pneumonia--therapy
Cross Infection--prevention & control
Cross Infection--therapy
Pneumonia--prevention & control
Respiration, Artificial--adverse effects

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WC202 / .N8975 2007 9 WC202 / .N8975 2007 9HUKM