Efficacy of Clarithromycin in Preventing Viridans Streptococcal Bacteremia following autologous Stem Cell Transplantation

Abstract

Age, duration of neutropenia, type of underlying malignancy and type of conditioning chemotherapy regimen failed to have a significant impact on subsequent VS bacteremia. Only female sex and use of ciprofloxacin without clarithromycin as antimicrobiaL prophyLaxis predicted a significantly increased risk of VS bacteremia in both univariate and Logistic regression analyses.

Two-way analysis for detecting factors affecting ventilator-associated pneumonia

“…Because the problem of clinically required ventilation period was not involved, only rate analysis was performed [23][24][25]. We found that patients with acute myelogenous leukemia had a higher fever rate but their fever occurred later.…”