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Metadata
Title
Ventilation-associated pneumonia and probiotics: many clues do not make evidence
Authors
Jacopo Colombo
Daniela Codazzi
Martin Langer
Publication date
01-09-2016
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 9/2016
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-016-4366-8

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