Evaluation of an empiric antibiotic regimen in pediatric oncology patients presenting with fever does not reveal the emergence of antibiotic resistance over a 12-year period
Purpose: Neutropenic fever in a pediatric oncology patient necessitates emergent initiation of efficacious broad spectrum antibiotics. We have utilized cefepime+/-vancomycin in this context for over two decades, and sough to evaluate the efficacy of this combination at our institution and, if necess...
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Main Authors: | Tristan Knight (Author), Avanti Gupte (Author), Kristopher Dulay (Author), Robert Mitchell (Author), Hossein Salimnia (Author), Zhihong Joanne Wang (Author) |
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2020-09-01T00:00:00Z.
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