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What’s new in diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy of febrile neutropenic patients with lung infiltrates?

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  1. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany

    C. Rieger & S. Barlow

  2. Department of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Klinikum Ernst von Bergmann, Potsdam, Germany

    G. Maschmeyer

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Rieger, C., Barlow, S. & Maschmeyer, G. What’s new in diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy of febrile neutropenic patients with lung infiltrates?. Intensive Care Med 40, 1549–1552 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3368-7

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