Incidence of clostridium difficile infection in patients with acute leukemia and lymphoma after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-315

  Leung, Sharon ^a   Metzger, Brian S ^b   Currie, Brian P ^b,c,d  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Infectious Disease ^*  (Australia)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Foundation for Applied Epidemiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN; CEFEPIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DAPTOMYCIN; DEXAMETHASONE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUDARABINE; GATIFLOXACIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; IMIPENEM; MELPHALAN; METHOTREXATE; METRONIDAZOLE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; TACROLIMUS; VALACICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; FECES ANALYSIS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION CONDITIONING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 77249123341     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651066     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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