Guidelines for the Use of Antimicrobial Agents in Neutropenic Patients with Cancer
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Walter T. Hughes, Donald Armstrong, Gerald P. Bodey, Eric J. Bow, Arthur E. Brown, Thierry Calandra, Ronald Feld, Philip A. Pizzo, Kenneth V. I. Rolston, Jerry L. Shenep, and Lowell S. Young St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston; Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, and Kuzell Institute for Arthritis, San Francisco, California; University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, and Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada; and Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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