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  1. Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Thorax Institute, Hospital Clínic, Calle Villarroel 170, Esc 6/8 Planta 2, 08036, Barcelona, Spain

    Gianluigi Li Bassi MD, PhD, Tarek Sanussi MD & Otavio Tavares Ranzani MD, MSc

  2. Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Barcelona, Spain

    Gianluigi Li Bassi MD, PhD

  3. Centro de Investigación Biomedica En Red- Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Barcelona, Spain

    Gianluigi Li Bassi MD, PhD & Otavio Tavares Ranzani MD, MSc

  4. Department of Surgical Sciences and Integrated Diagnostics; IRCCS AOU San Martino- IST, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

    Tarek Sanussi MD & Paolo Pelosi MD

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Bassi, G.L., Sanussi, T., Pelosi, P., Ranzani, O.T. (2017). Pulmonary Infections in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. In: Chiumello, D. (eds) Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41852-0_20

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