Endotoxaemia as a cause of fever in immunosuppressed patients.
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Endotoxaemia as a cause of fever in immunosuppressed patients.
Using a recently developed chromogenic substrate assay sensitive to 10 pg/ml Escherichia coli endotoxin in plasma, systemic endotoxaemia was found in 52% of 21 episodes of fever in patients with a haematological malignancy who were infected. Endotoxaemia was also found in 27% of 22 episodes of fever of unknown origin. In 45 afebrile patients neither neutropenia nor cytotoxic chemotherapy was a ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1984
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.37.4.467