Infections of febrile neutropenic patients in malignant hematological diseases

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 355-359

  Rókusz, László ^a   Liptay, László ^a  

^a Central Military Hospital Budapest   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMIKACIN; AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; MEROPENEM; TEICOPLANIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FUNGEMIA; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; NEUTROPENIA; NEUTROPHIL; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS COLITIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

EID: 0038300430     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.5.355     Document Type: Article

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