Febrile neutropenia in haematological malignancies

A Sharma, N Lokeshwar - Journal of postgraduate medicine, 2005 - journals.lww.com
… -positive pathogens include the viridans group streptococci such as S. mitis and S. mileri, …
ABLC was the first lipid formulation to be approved by the FDA for use in children and adults…

Predicting the risk of severe bacterial infection in children with chemotherapy‐induced febrile neutropenia

E Macher, F Dubos, N Garnier… - Pediatric blood & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
children with chemotherapy-induced neutropenia, and fever … mortality from febrile neutropenia
(FN) in children with cancer … cases, and most children remain asymptomatic on treatment 7…

Abscessing infection by Streptococcus mitis mimicking metastatic lesions in a 5-year-old girl with nephroblastoma: a case report

L Imhof, S Schrading, T Braunschweig… - Journal of Pediatric …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Streptococcus mitis in oncological patients have not been reported so far. We report on 5-year-old
child … went through 10 episodes of fever in neutropenia. Except for clostridium difficile …

Predictors of viridans streptococcal shock syndrome in bacteremic children with cancer and stem-cell transplant recipients

A Gassas, R Grant, S Richardson, LL Dupuis… - Journal of clinical …, 2004 - ascopubs.org
streptococcal bacteremia in children with febrile neutropenia … with febrile neutropenia in
general. The pathogenesis of … like syndrome caused by Streptococcus mitis in immunocompetent …

2686. strong> Bloodstream Infection Survey in High-Risk Oncology Patients (BISHOP) with Fever and Neutropenia (FN): Viridans Group Streptococcus Emerges as an …

E Stohs, A Zimmer, P Fey, LD Handke… - Open Forum …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… Background: Fluoroquinolone (FQ) prophylaxis for high-risk neutropenic patients has been
shown to reduce rates of febrile neutropenia and is standard at many centers. For patients …

Management of the febrile neutropenic patient: a consensus conference

JJ Picazo - Clinical infectious diseases, 2004 - academic.oup.com
… for the use of antimicrobials in febrile neutropenia in Japan, based on the evidence …
Streptococcus mitis as a cause of septicemia with meningitis in febrile neutropenic children. …

Changing epidemiology of infections in patients with neutropenia and cancer: emphasis on gram-positive and resistant bacteria

SH Zinner - Clinical infectious diseases, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Streptococcus mitis as a cause of septicemia with meningitis in febrile neutropenic children.
… A necrotic soft-tissue lesion due to Corynebacterium urealyticum in a neutropenic child. Clin …

Viridans streptococcal sepsis: clinical features and complications in childhood acute myeloid leukemia

Y Okamoto, RC Ribeiro, DK Srivastava… - Journal of pediatric …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
… in children treated for AML. Here we describe the clinical course and complications of VS
sepsis in children … for these patients during the 71 other episodes of fever and neutropenia was …

[PDF][PDF] Detection of bacteria, fungi, and viruses by a real-time PCR assay using universal primers and probes from blood in patients with febrile neutropenia.

H Teranishi, K Ouchi - Kawasaki medical journal, 2014 - igakkai.kms-igakkai.com
… Two out of 9 patients with FNEs who were detected Streptococcus mitis were complicated
… Diagnosis of bacteria in febrile neutropenic episodes in children with cancer: microbiologic …

Bacteremia due to viridans streptococci that are highly resistant to penicillin: increase among neutropenic patients with cancer

J Carratalá, F Alcaide… - Clinical infectious …, 1995 - academic.oup.com
… viridans group streptococci. The species isolated were Streptococcus mitis in 18 episodes, …
have been found to colonize the nasopharynges of children in South Africa in association …