Duration of empiric antibiotic therapy in granulocytopenic patients with cancer.

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Published in Am J Med on August 01, 1979

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P A Pizzo, K J Robichaud, F A Gill, F G Witebsky, A S Levine, A B Deisseroth, D L Glaubiger, J D Maclowry, I T Magrath, D G Poplack, R M Simon

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