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Neutropenic cancer patients with severe sepsis: need for antibiotics in the first hour

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  1. Polyvalent Intensive Care Unit, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Institut Paoli Calmettes, 232 Boulevard Sainte Marguerite, 13009, Marseille Cedex 09, France

    Djamel Mokart, Antoine Sannini, Laurent Chow-Chine, Jean-Paul Brun, Marion Faucher & Jean-Louis Blache

  2. Groupe de Recherche En Réanimation Respiratoire En Onco-Hématologie (GRRR-OH), Paris, France

    Djamel Mokart

  3. Hematology Department, Institut Paoli Calmettes, Marseille, France

    Colombe Saillard & Didier Blaise

  4. Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France

    Didier Blaise & Marc Leone

  5. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Hôpital Nord, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Marseille, Marseille, France

    Marc Leone

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Mokart, D., Saillard, C., Sannini, A. et al. Neutropenic cancer patients with severe sepsis: need for antibiotics in the first hour. Intensive Care Med 40, 1173–1174 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-014-3374-9

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