Aeromonas Bacteremia in Patients with Hematologic Diseases.
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Acute rhabdomyolysis and myonecrosis complicating aeromonas bacteremia in neutropenic patients with hematologic malignancies: report of two cases.
Infections by Aeromonas spp. are a rare cause of systemic infection in normal and immunocompromised hosts. We report the cases of two patients with acute non-lymphoblastic leukemia who developed septic shock by Aeromonas species with unusual soft-tissue complications. One patient who was undergoing consolidation chemotherapy developed septic shock by Aeromonas hydrophila with rhabdomyolysis and...
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عنوان ژورنال: Internal Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 0918-2918,1349-7235
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.171