Romina Valenzuela, Carolina Riquelme, Verónica de la Maza, Ana María Álvarez, Verónica Contardo, Karen Ducasse, Ernesto Payá, Ximena Claverie, Marcela Venegas, María Elena Santolaya
UNLABELLED: Bacteremia is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer and episodes of high-risk febrile neutropenia (HRFN). OBJECTIVE: To identify the frequency of microorganisms isolated from blood cultures (BC) and their antimicrobial resistance (R) profile in children with HRFN, compared with the same data from previous studies of the same group. METHOD: Prospective, multicenter, epidemiological surveillance study of microorganisms isolated from BC in patients under 18 years of age, from 7 PINDA network hospitals, between 2016 and 2021...
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