Infection with antibiotic-resistant bacteria, such as vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE),
is a dangerous and costly complication of broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy 1 , 2 . How …

Background: Quinolones are used extensively for prophylaxis in high-risk cancer patients;
however, increasing quinolone resistance is being reported. Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (…

BACKGROUND: In vitro and in vivo studies suggested that combination of lipid formulation
of amphotericin B (L‐AMB) and echinocandins may have a synergistic or additive effect …

Background. Diarrhea is a common complication of allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
Microbiologic stool studies are frequently ordered to rule out infectious etiology. The utility …

We describe a 75-year-old white man with a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia (AML)
who was admitted to the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center with neutropenic …

Aim. Invasive aspergillosis occurs in 5–15% of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant
(HSCT) recipients. Through the 1990s there has been an increase in the incidence of late …

We report on the incidence, risk factors, and outcome of late Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
(SAB) in a cohort of 709 adult and pediatric patients at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer …

OBJECTIVE: As part of Meropenem Yearly Susceptibility Test Information Collection/USA
Surveillance Programme, we monitored the occurrence of quinolone resistance in Escherichia …

The overall risk of infections is lower in patients undergoing non-myeloablative allogeneic
stem cell transplantation (NST) than in conventional stem cell transplant recipients. We sought …

Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are common pathogens of bloodstream infections
in the peritransplantation period. Linezolid is approved by the FDA for treating VRE infections…