European guidelines for empirical antibacterial therapy for febrile neutropenic patients in the era of growing resistance: summary of the 2011 4th European Conference on Infections in Leukemia.

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Published in Haematologica on December 01, 2013

Authors

Diana Averbuch1, Christina Orasch, Catherine Cordonnier, David M Livermore, Malgorzata Mikulska, Claudio Viscoli, Inge C Gyssens, Winfried V Kern, Galina Klyasova, Oscar Marchetti, Dan Engelhard, Murat Akova, ECIL4, a joint venture of EBMT, EORTC, ICHS, ESGICH/ESCMID and ELN

Author Affiliations

1: dina8282@walla.co.il.

Associated clinical trials:

Optimization of Antibiotic Treatment in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Receptors (Optimbioma) | NCT03727113

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