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Brief Report: Stepdown Single Agent Antibiotic Therapy for the Management of the High Risk Neutropenic Adult with Hematologic Malignancies

Harold W. Horowitz The Department of Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Westchester County Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA
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Diane Holmgren The Department of Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Diseases, Westchester County Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA
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Karen Seiter The Department of Oncology, Westchester County Medical Center and New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, USA
Pages 159-163 | Received 01 Jan 1996, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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