Opportunistic infections in patients with cancer

Annals of Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 4, 2004, Pages

  Klastersky, J ^a   Aoun, M ^a  

^a JULES BORDET INSTITUTE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMPHOTERICIN B; AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; AMPICILLIN; ANTACID AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CASPOFUNGIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CORTICOSTEROID; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUCONAZOLE; FLUCYTOSINE; GANCICLOVIR; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; ITRACONAZOLE; MICONAZOLE; PEFLOXACIN; PENICILLIN G; PENTAMIDINE; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; RIBAVIRIN; TRIAZOLE DERIVATIVE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VANCOMYCIN; VIDARABINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FUNGEMIA; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPOCALCEMIA; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LEUKEMIA; LUNG INFECTION; LYMPHOMA; NEUTROPENIA; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SALMONELLOSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SIDE EFFECT; UREMIA;

BACTEREMIA; CANDIDIASIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTIONS; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PNEUMONIA;

EID: 9744284186     PISSN: 09237534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annonc/mdh947     Document Type: Article

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