Monika Richert-Przygonska, Krzysztof Czyzewski, Magdalena Dziedzic, Patrycja Zalas-Wiecek, Olga Gryniewicz-Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka Gietka, Zofia Malas, Katarzyna Semczuk, Liliana Chelmecka, Iwona Zak, Malgorzata Salamonowicz-Bodzioch, Jowita Fraczkiewicz, Olga Zajac-Spychala, Ewa Bien, Ninela Irga-Jaworska, Marcin Plonowski, Pawel Wawrykow, Magdalena Bartnik, Filip Pierlejewski, Zuzanna Gamrot, Wanda Badowska, Weronika Stolpa, Jakub Musial, Anna Szmydki-Baran, Lukasz Hutnik, Renata Tomaszewska, Agnieszka Urbanek-Dadela, Agnieszka Zaucha-Prazmo, Jolanta Gozdzik, Jan Styczynski
BACKGROUND: Infections caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (SM) have documented high mortality rate in immunocompromised patients. AIM: This nationwide multicenter study was performed to analyze the epidemiology of SM infections in children undergoing anticancer therapy (pediatric hematology and oncology [PHO]) or hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) over 2012-2019, including incidence and outcome of SM infections, as well as treatment regimens and multidrug resistance...
July 8, 2022: Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal