Fatal cytomegalovirus pneumonia in patients with haematological malignancies: An autopsy-based case-control study

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1160-1166

  Torres, H A ^a   Aguilera, E ^a   Safdar, A ^a   Rohatgi, N ^a   Raad, I I ^a   Sepulveda, C ^a   Luna, M ^a   Kontoyiannis, D P ^a   Chemaly, R F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cancer; Cytomegalovirus; Haematological malignancies; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; FLUDARABINE; FOSCARNET; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT DURATION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

CYTOMEGALOVIRUS;

EID: 57649228523     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2008.02106.x     Document Type: Article

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