Outpatient treatment of low-risk neutropenic fever in cancer patients using oral moxifloxacin
β Scribed by Georgios Chamilos; Aristotle Bamias; Eleni Efstathiou; Pagona M. Zorzou; Efstathios Kastritis; Evagelos Kostis; Christos Papadimitriou; Meletios A. Dimopoulos
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 103
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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