Duration of intravenous antibiotics for patients with neutropenic fever
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blood culture in neutropenic patients with fever
in 2004, klastersky et al. reported that fever isa common finding in patients with hematologicmalignancies, occurring in more than 80% of thepatients during or after chemotherapy.[1] he andhis colleagues also reported that the most fearedinfection in neutropenic patients is bloodstreaminfection (bsi), which significantly increases themortality rate of these patients.[2] in 2009, viscoliet al.[3...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of Oncology
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0923-7534
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.annonc.a058877