Capnocytophaga canimorsus sepsis following BMT in a patient with AML: Possible association with functional asplenia

Bone Marrow Transplantation

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 153-154

  Ugai, T ^a,b   Sugihara, H ^a   Nishida, Y ^a   Yamakura, M ^a   Takeuchi, M ^a   Matsue, K ^a  

^a KAMEDA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTRIAXONE; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; MEROPENEM; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENIC BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; ASPLENIA; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA CANIMORSUS SEPSIS; CASE REPORT; CHILL; CHRONIC GRAFT VERSUS HOST DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RIGOR; SEPTIC SHOCK; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, ACUTE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SALIVA; SEPSIS; SPLEEN; THIENAMYCINS; THROMBOCYTOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84891841737     PISSN: 02683369     EISSN: 14765365     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bmt.2013.126     Document Type: Letter

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