Clinical significance of alimentary tract microbes in bone marrow transplant recipients

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 75-81

  Yuen, Kwok Yung ^a   Woo, Patrick C Y ^a   Liang, Raymond H S ^a   Chiu, Edmund K W ^a   Chen, Frederick F E ^a   Wong, Samson S Y ^a   Lau, Yu Lung ^a   Ha, Sau Yin ^a   Peiris, J S Malik ^a   Siau, Hong ^a   Chan, Tai Kwong ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CHLORHEXIDINE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; NYSTATIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COLITIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG EFFICACY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESOPHAGITIS; GASTRITIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031913648     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(97)00213-7     Document Type: Article

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