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Nutritionally Variant Streptococci Bacteremia in Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Study, 1999–2014

BACKGROUND: Nutritionally variant Streptococci (NVS), Abiotrophia and Granulicatella are implicated in causing endocarditis and blood stream infections more frequently than other sites of infection. Neutropenia and mucositis are the most common predisposing factors for infection with other pathogens...

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Autores principales: Yacoub, Abraham T., Krishnan, Jayasree, Acevedo, Ileana M., Halliday, Joseph, Greene, John N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25960858
http://dx.doi.org/10.4084/MJHID.2015.030