Elevated serum cytokine levels using cytometric bead arrays predict culture-positive infections in childhood oncology patients with febrile neutropenia

Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Badurdeen, Shiraz ^a   Hodge, Greg ^b   Osborn, Michael ^b   Scott, Julius ^b   St John Green, Celia ^b   Tapp, Heather ^b   Zola, Heddy ^a   Revesz, Tamas ^b  

^a Children's Health Research Institute   (Australia)

^b WOMEN S AND CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

bacteraemia; cytokine; febrile; neutropenia; prediction

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFEPIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLAVULANIC ACID; CYTOKINE; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 5; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TAZOBACTAM; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMETRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; TREATMENT DURATION;

BACTEREMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CHILD; CYTOKINES; FEVER; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; NEUTROPENIA;

EID: 84855417953     PISSN: 10774114     EISSN: 15363678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e3182193009     Document Type: Article

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