Infection Management
Infection management is challenging in cancer and stem cell transplant patients
Published in Blood Weekly, June 29th, 2006
According to a recent report from Germany, "Infections are the most important causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with aggressive malignancies and those undergoing allogeneic stem cell transplantation.
"The introduction of new therapeutic approaches including the use of nucleoside analogs and of monoclonal antibodies to CD20 and CD52 and the increased use of matched unrelated stem cell donors has resulted in new challenges with regard to systemic viral and fungal infections."
"In patients with bacterial infections, emergence of...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2006-06-29)
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