Predictive implications of albumin and C-reactive protein for progression to pneumonia and poor prognosis in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Abstract Background Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (S. maltophilia) bacteremia causes significant morbidity and mortality in immunocompromised hosts. However, incidence and risk factors for mortality in S. maltophilia bacteremia following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT)...

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Main Authors: Kaito Harada, Noritaka Sekiya, Tatsuya Konishi, Akihito Nagata, Yuta Yamada, Toshiaki Takezaki, Satoshi Kaito, Shuhei Kurosawa, Masahiro Sakaguchi, Shunichiro Yasuda, Shugo Sasaki, Kosuke Yoshioka, Kyoko Watakabe-Inamoto, Aiko Igarashi, Yuho Najima, Takeshi Hagino, Hideharu Muto, Takeshi Kobayashi, Noriko Doki, Kazuhiko Kakihana, Hisashi Sakamaki, Kazuteru Ohashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-09-01
Series:BMC Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12879-017-2745-6