Circulating bacterial DNA and neutropenic fever during anti-leukaemia chemotherapy

Br J Haematol. 2020 Oct;191(2):e55-e58. doi: 10.1111/bjh.16994. Epub 2020 Jul 26.

Authors

Armin Rashidi¹, Thomas Kaiser², Maryam Ebadi¹, Shernan G Holtan¹, Tauseef Ur Rehman³, Daniel J Weisdorf¹, Alexander Khoruts³, Christopher Staley²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
² Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: 16S; Delftia; acute leukemia; circulating bacteria; neutropenic fever.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Cell-Free Nucleic Acids / blood*
Chemotherapy-Induced Febrile Neutropenia / blood*
DNA, Bacterial / blood*
Female
Fever / blood*
Fever / chemically induced
Humans
Leukemia* / blood
Leukemia* / drug therapy
Leukemia* / microbiology
Male
Middle Aged

Substances

Cell-Free Nucleic Acids
DNA, Bacterial

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