No occurrence of Pneumocystis jiroveci (carinii) pneumonia in 120 adults undergoing myeloablative unrelated cord blood transplantation

Transplant Infectious Disease

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 303-307

  Tomonari, A ^a   Takahashi, S ^a   Ooi, J ^a   Tsukada, N ^a   Konuma, T ^a   Kato, S ^a   Kasahara, S ^a   Iseki, T ^a   Tojo, A ^a   Asano, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cord blood transplantation; Pentamidine; Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia; Pneumocystis jiroveci; Trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYCLOSPORIN; CYTARABINE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUDARABINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; PENTAMIDINE; TOSUFLOXACIN TOSILATE;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRONCHOSPASM; CHRONIC GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; KIDNEY INJURY; LIVER TOXICITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS; MYELOABLATIVE CONDITIONING; MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME; MYELOID LEUKEMIA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PNEUMOCYSTIS CARINII; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INHALATION; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CORD BLOOD STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENTAMIDINE; PNEUMOCYSTIS JIROVECII; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOKYO; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52449086044     PISSN: 13982273     EISSN: 13993062     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-3062.2008.00321.x     Document Type: Article

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