Specificity of Endotracheal Aspiration, Protected Specimen Brush, and Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
- 1 April 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Thoracic Society in American Review of Respiratory Disease
- Vol. 147 (4), 952-957
- https://doi.org/10.1164/ajrccm/147.4.952
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