Nutritionally variant Streptococci bacteremia in cancer patients: A retrospective study, 1999-2014

Mediterranean Journal of Hematology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Yacoub, Abraham T ^a   Krishnan, Jayasree ^a   Acevedo, Ileana M ^b   Halliday, Joseph ^b   Greene, John N ^a  

^a H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CEFEPIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; LEVOFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ACUTE MYELOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLADDER CANCER; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHRONIC LYMPHATIC LEUKEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE DURATION; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONALLY VARIANT STREPTOCOCCUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84942693645     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20353006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4084/MJHID.2015.030     Document Type: Article

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