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Is very short-course antibiotic therapy possible in postoperative intra-abdominal infections? Discussion on “Short-course antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients treated for postoperative intra-abdominal infection: the DURAPOP randomised clinical trial”

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Critical Care, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Paseo de la Castellana 261, Madrid, 28046, Spain

    Alejandro Suarez-de-la-Rica, Fernando Gilsanz & Emilio Maseda

  2. Paris Diderot Sorbonne Cite University, Paris, France

    Philippe Montravers

  3. Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, HUPNSV, AP-HP, INSERM UMR, 1152, Paris, France

    Philippe Montravers

  4. Département d’Anesthésie Réanimation, L’UBL, Université d’Angers, CHU Angers, Angers, France

    Sigismond Lasocki

  5. Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, St Antoine Hospital, APHP, Sorbonne Universites, UPMC Univ Paris 06, Paris, France

    Thomas Lescot

  6. Critical Care Medicine Department, Amiens University Hospital and INSERM U1088, University of Picardy Jules Verne, Amiens, France

    Herve Dupont

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Suarez-de-la-Rica, A., Gilsanz, F., Maseda, E. et al. Is very short-course antibiotic therapy possible in postoperative intra-abdominal infections? Discussion on “Short-course antibiotic therapy for critically ill patients treated for postoperative intra-abdominal infection: the DURAPOP randomised clinical trial”. Intensive Care Med 44, 695–696 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5167-z

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