December 2018Clin Infect DisPublished the Chinese multicenter study "Clinical epidemiology of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in ICU: a prospective observational study in China" [Xie J, Yang Y, Huang Y, et al. The current epidemiological landscape of ventilator-associated pneumonia in the intensive care unit: a multicenter prospective observational study in China. Clin Infect Dis, 2018, 67 (Suppl 2): S153 – S161]. The first nationwide multi-center observation study was conducted to clarify the epidemiological characteristics of VAP. The results showed that the pathogenic bacteria of early-onset and late-onset VAP were mostly multidrug-resistant bacteria, and the mortality rate exceeded 40%.