Antibacterial prophylaxis in patients with cancer and neutropenia

N Engl J Med. 2006 Jan 5;354(1):90-4; author reply 90-4.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Comment
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Antibiotic Prophylaxis*
  • Bacterial Infections / prevention & control*
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Fever / etiology
  • Fever / prevention & control
  • Humans
  • Neoplasms / complications
  • Neoplasms / drug therapy*
  • Neutropenia / complications
  • Ofloxacin / therapeutic use*
  • Pseudomonas Infections / drug therapy
  • Quinolones / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents
  • Quinolones
  • Ofloxacin