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Review

Neutropenic Fever

Malgorzata Mikulska  1
Enric Carreras  1 , Carlo Dufour  2 , Mohamad Mohty  3 , Nicolaus Kröger  4
, editors.
In: The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies [Internet]. 7th edition. Cham (CH): Springer; 2019. Chapter 35.
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Neutropenic Fever

Malgorzata Mikulska.
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Fever during neutropenia is almost universal after a HSCT. In neutropenic HSCT recipients, clinicians are faced with a unique combination of two issues: (1) high incidence of bacterial bloodstream infections and (2) high mortality in case of infections due to Gram-negative bacteria unless effective antibiotic treatment is provided promptly.

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