Fluoroquinolone resistance of Escherichia coli at a cancer center: epidemiologic evolution and effects of discontinuing prophylactic fluoroquinolone use in neutropenic patients with leukemia.

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Published in Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis on February 01, 2005

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W V Kern1, K Klose, A S Jellen-Ritter, M Oethinger, J Bohnert, P Kern, S Reuter, H von Baum, R Marre

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1: Center for Infectious Diseases and Travel Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Hugstetter Strasse 55, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. kern@if-freiburg.de

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