Acyclovir for ventilator-associated pneumonia refractory to antibiotics and with high viral herpes simplex load: we are not sure

Table 1 Evaluation of 30-day mortality

	All patients			Low viral load (10³-10⁵ copies/mL)			High viral load (>10⁵ copies/mL)
	Untreated n = 24	Treated n = 65	p	Untreated n = 14	Treated n = 16	p	Untreated n = 10	Treated n = 49	p
30-day mortality	14 (58%)	27 (42%)	0.231	6 (43%)	6 (38%)	1	8 (80%)	21 (43%)	0.042

p-values were calculated using the Fisher’s exact test (significant values are indicated in bold: <0.05)

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