Colonization with multidrug resistant organisms determines the clinical course of patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing intensive induction chemotherapy

Olivier Ballo; Ikram Tarazzit; Jan Stratmann; Claudia Reinheimer; Michael Hogardt; Thomas A. Wichelhaus; Volkhard Kempf; Hubert Serve; Fabian Finkelmeier; Christian Brandts

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210991

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Colonization with multidrug resistant organisms determines the clinical course of patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing intensive induction chemotherapy

Olivier Ballo ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: olivier.ballo@kgu.de (OB); brandts@em.uni-frankfurt.de (CB)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Cancer Center Frankfurt (UCT), Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1634-1988

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Ikram Tarazzit,

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Jan Stratmann,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7726-6622

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Claudia Reinheimer,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Center for Infectious Diseases, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Michael Hogardt,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Center for Infectious Diseases, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Thomas A. Wichelhaus,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Center for Infectious Diseases, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Volkhard Kempf,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of Medical Microbiology and Infection Control, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Center for Infectious Diseases, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Hubert Serve,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Cancer Center Frankfurt (UCT), Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Center for Infectious Diseases, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Fabian Finkelmeier ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabian Finkelmeier, Christian Brandts

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliations University Cancer Center Frankfurt (UCT), Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, Department of Medicine, Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Christian Brandts

Contributed equally to this work with: Fabian Finkelmeier, Christian Brandts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: olivier.ballo@kgu.de (OB); brandts@em.uni-frankfurt.de (CB)

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, University Cancer Center Frankfurt (UCT), Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
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Colonization with multidrug resistant organisms determines the clinical course of patients with acute myeloid leukemia undergoing intensive induction chemotherapy

Olivier Ballo,
Ikram Tarazzit,
Jan Stratmann,
Claudia Reinheimer,
Michael Hogardt,
Thomas A. Wichelhaus,
Volkhard Kempf,
Hubert Serve,
Fabian Finkelmeier,
Christian Brandts

Published: January 23, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210991

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