Prophylactic antibiotics eliminate bacteremia and allow safe outpatient management following high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell rescue

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 364-369

  Meisenberg, Barry ^a   Gollard, Russell ^a   Brehm, Terry ^a   McMillan, Robert ^a   Miller, William ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ciprofloxacin; Prophylactic antibiotics; Rifampin; Stem cell rescue

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; RIFAMPICIN;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BACTEREMIA; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BACTEREMIA; CIPROFLOXACIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RIFAMPIN; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030225967     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01788843     Document Type: Article

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