2007
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2007.02.002
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Bacteremia in patients with febrile neutropenia after chemotherapy at a university medical center in Malaysia

Abstract: Carbapenem monotherapy, as recommended in the 2002 IDSA guidelines, is effective treatment for the infections most often encountered at our center. Combination therapy with an aminoglycoside should be considered when using ceftazidime, cefepime or piperacillin-tazobactam, particularly in high-risk patients. Vancomycin should be used if a Gram-positive organism is suspected or isolated.

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“…Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was documented according to the CLSI in 16 studies 12,14,17,18,22,23,25,28,[31][32][33][35][36][37][38]40 and according to EUCAST or to Swedish Reference Group for Antibiotics (SRGA) breakpoints in two studies, 11,21 while for the others the testing method was not documented. Only two reports performed molecular characterization of CR strains.…”
Section: 39mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was documented according to the CLSI in 16 studies 12,14,17,18,22,23,25,28,[31][32][33][35][36][37][38]40 and according to EUCAST or to Swedish Reference Group for Antibiotics (SRGA) breakpoints in two studies, 11,21 while for the others the testing method was not documented. Only two reports performed molecular characterization of CR strains.…”
Section: 39mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Neutropenia was defined as an absolute neutrophil count < 500 cells/mm 3 or absolute neutrophil count expected to decrease to < 500 cells/mm 3 Lymphoma, multiple myeloma, myelodysplasia syndrome, chronic myeloid leukemia, chronic lymphoblastic leukemia; 4 Antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral prophylaxis; 5 Total of 66 fungal infections: 3 of them MDI (3 C. albicans isolated from specimens) and 63 of them CDI (probable and possible invasive aspergillozis according to serology and pulmonary tomography).…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, all these drugs are associated with suppression of bone marrow and severe neutropenia, which causes the patients to become vulnerable to life-threatening infections [2][3][4]. The resulting neutropenia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in these patients [5]. Nevertheless, more than 80% of patients treated with cytotoxic drugs experience at least one febrile neutropenic episode (FNE), which leads to excessive broad-spectrum antibiotic use and the selection of resistant microorganisms [6].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Adicionalmente, los esquemas de quimioterapia en neoplasias hematoló-gicas condicionan mayor tiempo y gravedad de aplasia medular, por lo tanto no se puede diferenciar si el riesgo de mortalidad es debido a la presencia de dicha neoplasia o a su tratamiento quimioterapéutico 31,32 . Towne y cols., al realizar un nuevo análisis de la causa de mortalidad en pacientes tratados con cefepima en NF encontraron que en 36% de un total de 74 casos, ésta estaba relacionada con la progresión de su enfermedad neoplásica 32,33 . En países desarrollados se reportan como etiología de infección en pacientes con NF bacterias grampositivas (60-70%), probablemente por la proliferación del uso de catéteres vasculares centrales 12,19,23,24,29 .…”
Section: Cultivos Negativosunclassified
“…En países desarrollados se reportan como etiología de infección en pacientes con NF bacterias grampositivas (60-70%), probablemente por la proliferación del uso de catéteres vasculares centrales 12,19,23,24,29 . Sin embargo, esta documentación microbiológica es altamente variable de acuerdo a la población, reportándose en países en desarrollo y en el Medio Oriente un predominio en bacterias gramnegativas [33][34][35][36][37] . En nuestra institución se documentaron con mayor frecuencia bacterias gramnegativas en más de 50% de todos los eventos de NF y en 63% de los que fallecieron, sin poderse establecer una correlación entre la etiología y la mortalidad.…”
Section: Cultivos Negativosunclassified