Impact of fluoroquinolone prophylaxis on reduced infection-related mortality among patients with neutropenia and hematologic malignancies.

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Published in Clin Infect Dis on March 11, 2005

Authors

Stefan Reuter1, Winfried V Kern, Anja Sigge, Hartmut Döhner, Reinhard Marre, Peter Kern, Heike von Baum

Author Affiliations

1: Section of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Germany. stefan.reuter@medizin.uni-ulm.de

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