Polymicrobial pulmonary infection in patients with hematological malignancies: prevalence, co-pathogens, course and outcome

Infection

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 491-497

  Hardak, Emilia ^a,f   Avivi, Irit ^c,f   Berkun, Lina ^d   Raz Pasteur, Ayelet ^b,d,f   Lavi, Noa ^d,f   Geffen, Yuval ^e   Yigla, Mordechai ^a,f   Oren, Ilana ^b,f  

^a Division of Pulmonary Medicine   (Israel)

^b Unit of Infectious Diseases   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d NONE   (Israel)

^e Clinical Microbiology Laboratory   (Israel)

^f TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bronchoalveolar lavage; Fiberoptic bronchoscopy; Hematological malignancies; Polymicrobial pulmonary infection

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE;

ACUTE LEUKEMIA; ADULT; ALLOGENEIC HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPERGILLUS; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; LUNG ASPERGILLOSIS; LUNG INFECTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG MYCOSIS; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURITIC PAIN; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POLYMICROBIAL PULMONARY INFECTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; THORAX PAIN; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; BRONCHOSCOPY; COINFECTION; COMPLICATION; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

BRONCHOSCOPY; COINFECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT VS HOST DISEASE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84954476479     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-016-0873-3     Document Type: Article

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