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Why empirical therapy?

Author(s) -

Jean Klášterský

Publication year - 2009

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkp075

Subject(s) - medicine , febrile neutropenia , antimicrobial , intensive care medicine , neutropenia , empirical treatment , occult , cancer therapy , sepsis , antibiotic therapy , cancer , antibiotics , chemotherapy , biology , alternative medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology

Why empirical therapy? Because it works! Empirical antimicrobial therapy is a reasonable, pragmatic approach to limit the ominous threat of Gram-negative sepsis in febrile neutropenic cancer patients. Empirical treatment of occult fungal infection in patients with neutropenia and persistent fever, in spite of initial broad-spectrum antimicrobial coverage, is effective but the role of pre-emptive treatment remains to be established.

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