Listeria monocytogenes infection in patients with cancer

Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 393-398

  Rivero, G A ^a   Torres, H A ^a   Rolston, K V I ^a   Kontoyiannis, D P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Listeria monocytogenes; Listeriosis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; ERYTHROMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; RIFAMPICIN; SULBACTAM; TETRACYCLINE; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; BACTEREMIA; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FATALITY; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; LISTERIOSIS; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1642397502     PISSN: 07328893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0732-8893(03)00116-0     Document Type: Article

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