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Miscellaneous Article

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

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Pages 159-163 | Received 01 Jan 1996, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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