Discontinuation of intravenous antibiotic therapy during persistent neutropenia in patients receiving prophylaxis with oral ciprofloxacin

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 1300-1302

  Cornelissen, J J ^a   Rozenberg arska M ^a   Dekker, A W ^a  

^a Instituto Nacional de la Nutrición Salvador Zubirán ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CEFALOTIN; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; FEVER; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NEUTROPENIA; NOTE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, FLUOROQUINOLONE; ANTIBIOTICS; CIPROFLOXACIN; FEVER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEUKEMIA; LUNG DISEASES, FUNGAL; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0028818283     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/21.5.1300     Document Type: Article

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