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The PROPHY-VAP Trial: Ceftriaxone to Prevent VAP in Patients with Acute Brain Injury

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It is possible that the ceftriaxone altered baseline bacterial colonization within the respiratory tract, causing cultures to be negative despite positive clinical and radiological signs, leaving room for a false negative diagnosis. Bacterial colonization patterns in mechanically ventilated patients with traumatic and medical head injury.

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