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Brett Mitchell, Professor of Nursing and Health Services Research, University of Newcastle

Brushing your teeth in hospital could reduce the chance of catching pneumonia

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You go to hospital for treatment and to get better. But sometimes, you get something much less welcome: an infection.

Pneumonia, an infection of the lungs, is one of the most common and deadly infections people develop in hospital. Around 50,000 patients contract pneumonia in Australian hospitals every year. Around 1,900 of them die from it.

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