Reasons for Low Bacterial Yields from Quantitative Cultures of Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid
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Copyright © 2012 The Korean Association of Internal Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Received : april 11, 2012 Accepted : april 23, 2012
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