Decline in antibiotic enzyme activity of neutrophils is a prognostic factor for infections in patients with myelodysplastic syndrome

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1292-1295

  Ito, Y ^a   Kawanishi, Y ^a   Shoji, N ^a   Ohyashiki, K ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHEPSIN G; ELASTASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFECTION; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; NEUTROPHIL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHEPSINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES; NEUTROPHILS; PANCREATIC ELASTASE; PROGNOSIS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034456166     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317470     Document Type: Article

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