Once-Daily Aminoglycosides in 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: Cancer Control
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1073-2748,1073-2748
DOI: 10.1177/107327480200900509