Prevention of infection in children with acute leukaemia: No major difference between total and selective bowel decontamination

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 200-206

  Muis, Niesje ^a,b   Kamps, Willem A ^a   Dankert, Jacob ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Bethesda Hospital   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Children; Infection; Neutropenia; Selective bowel decontamination; Total bowel decontamination

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CEFALORIDINE; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; NEOMYCIN; ORABASE;

ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE NONLYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD; DRUG COMBINATION; FOOD HANDLING; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INTESTINE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUTROPENIA; NURSING; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARBOXYMETHYLCELLULOSE; CEPHALORIDINE; CEPHALOSPORINS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLISTIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOOD HANDLING; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTESTINES; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; LEUKEMIA, NONLYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; NEOMYCIN; NEUTROPENIA; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERILIZATION; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION;

EID: 0030149170     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01682341     Document Type: Article

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