Antibiotic strategy after the empiric phase in patients treated for a hematological malignancy

Annals of Hematology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 273-279

  De Pauw, B E ^a   Dompeling, E C ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bone marrow transplantation; Empiric antibiotics; Infectious complications; Leukemia; Modification of antibiotic therapy; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPENIA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA;

EID: 0029919586     PISSN: 09395555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002770050172     Document Type: Article

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