Epidemiology, etiology, and diagnosis of health care acquired pneumonia including ventilator-associated pneumonia in Nepal

• Sabina Dongol,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Gyan Kayastha,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Nhukesh Maharjan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Sarita Pyatha,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Rajkumar K. C.,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

  Affiliation Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Louise Thwaites,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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• Buddha Basnyat,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Stephen Baker,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease (CITIID), Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Abhilasha Karkey

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: akarkey@oucru.org

  Affiliation Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan Hospital, Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Kathmandu, Nepal

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