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Article: Data on solid cancer described by researchers at Cairo University.(Report)
- Article from:
- Blood Weekly
- Article date:
- May 14, 2009
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"Nosocomial infections pose significant threats to hospitalized patients, especially the immunocompromised ones, such as cancer patients. This study examined the microbial spectrum of gram-negative bacteria in various infection sites in patients with leukemia and solid tumors," investigators in Cairo, Egypt report (see also Solid Cancer).
"The antimicrobial resistance patterns of the isolated bacteria were studied. The most frequently isolated gram-negative bacteria were Klebsiella pneumonia (31.2%) followed by Escherichia coli (22.2%). We report the isolation and identification of a number of less-frequent gram negative bacteria (Chromobacterium violacum, ...