Management of Adults With Hospital-acquired and Ventilator-associated Pneumonia: 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Thoracic Society
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...Although patient factors will influence the length of antibiotic therapy, a treatment duration of 7–10 days (in the absence of source control issues) is generally adequate for most serious infections [103, 197-199]....
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...Current guidelines recommend a 7-day course of therapy for nosocomial pneumonia [both hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP)] [103]....
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...Of note, lower respiratory (eg, BAL, mini-BAL, brush, wash, ETA) and sputum samples should be processed within 2 hours if kept at room temperature and within 24 hours if kept at 4 degrees Celsius [69]....
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...samples should be processed within 2 hours if kept at room temperature and within 24 hours if kept at 4 degrees Celsius [69]....
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...imately 10%–20% of isolates), enteric gram-negative bacilli (approximately 20%–40% of isolates), and Acinetobacter baumannii (approximately 5%–10% of isolates) [138]....
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...baumannii isolates were resistant to carbapenems [138, 139]....
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