Surveillance of infectious complications in hemato-oncological patients

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 133-137

  Ram, Ron ^a,b   Gafter Gvili, Anat ^a,b   Raanani, Pia ^a,b   Yeshurun, Moshe ^a,b   Shpilberg, Ofer ^a,b   Dreyer, Juliet ^a   Peck, Anat ^a   Leibovici, Leonard ^a,b   Paul, Mica ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Fungi; Infections; Leukemia; Neutropenia

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHRONIC LEUKEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; ISRAEL; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MYCOSIS; NEUTROPENIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 67549083483     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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