Intensive Care Unit-Acquired Bacteremia in Mechanically Ventilated Patients: Clinical Features and Outcomes

• Hsin-Kuo Ko,

  Affiliations Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, The Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Wen-Kuang Yu,

  Affiliations Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Department of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Te-Cheng Lien,

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Jia-Horng Wang,

  Affiliation Department of Respiratory Therapy, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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• Arthur S. Slutsky,

  Affiliations The Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Haibo Zhang ,

  * E-mail: zhangh@smh.ca (HZ); yrkou@ym.edu.tw (YK)

  Affiliations The Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Anesthesia, Department of Physiology, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Yu Ru Kou

  * E-mail: zhangh@smh.ca (HZ); yrkou@ym.edu.tw (YK)

  Affiliations Institute of Physiology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC, Institute of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC

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