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Is penicillin enough for aspiration pneumonia?

There has been quite a tradition for including Gram negative anaerobic cover for patients suspected to have aspiration pneumonia. There are virtually no randomised trials that directly address the issue with nearly all such trials including agents that have Gram negative anaerobic cover across all treatment arms.   One exception was a small trial from 1997 in a paediatric […]