Epidemiology and source of infection in patients with febrile neutropenia: A ten-year longitudinal study

• Main Authors: Jaffar A. Al-Tawfiq (Author), Kareem Hinedi (Author), Hanan Khairallah (Author), Bassam Saadeh (Author), Suhail Abbasi (Author), Madeeha Noureen (Author), Safia Raza (Author), Adil Alkhatti (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: No recent studies are available from Saudi Arabia on the etiology of febrile neutropenia. The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of patients with febrile neutropenia and to calculate the rate of occurrence of bacteremia in these patients. Methods: This is a hospi...