ROLSTON KV, BALAKRISHNAN M, ELTING LS, TARRAND JJ, BODEY GP; Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2000 Sep 17-20; 40: 473.

The Univ. of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Ctr., Houston, TX

Gram-positive infections (GPI) in neutropenic cancer patients are associated with far less morbidity and mortality (/= 500 CFU/ml) occurred more frequently in GNI (32%) than in GPI (11%) p = <0.0001, and low-grade bacteremia was more frequent in GPI (67%) than GNI (43%) p = <0.0001. We are currently examining clinical outcomes in patients with high-grade and low-grade bacteremias, our hypothesis being that high-grade bacteremias are associated with greater morbidity/mortality.KEYWORDS: Bacteremia; Cancer; Quantitative variability

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Bacteremia
• Communicable Diseases
• Humans
• Infection
• Neoplasms

Other ID:

• GWAIDS0010610

UI: 102248108

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