Rhinocerebral mucormycosis in a patient with AIDS: a complication of diabetic ketoacidosis following pentamidine therapy.
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Figure 1. Total WBC count (0) and ANC (e) for patient 1, a 37year-old male who developed vancomycin-induced neutropenia. G-CSF (600 f.Lg iv) was initially administered on days 30 and 33 of therapy. Additional 300-f.Lg doses of iv G-CSF were administered twice weekly (on days 38-52) and thrice weekly (on days 55-78) until vancomycin therapy was completed. ANC = absolute neutrophil count. 8,500
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
دوره 23 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1996