Lack of development of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia in a cohort of 103 Italian glioblastoma patients not receiving prophylaxis during post-surgical chemoradiotherapy

J Neurol Sci. 2019 Oct 15:405:116431. doi: 10.1016/j.jns.2019.116431. Epub 2019 Aug 20.

¹ University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; Department of Neurology, Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni, Lecco, Italy. Electronic address: rifino.n@gmail.com.
² Department of Neurology, Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni, Lecco, Italy.
³ Department of Oncology, Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni, Lecco, Italy.
⁴ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni, Lecco, Italy.
⁵ Department of Neurosurgery, Ospedale Alessandro Manzoni, Lecco, Italy.
⁶ University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy; Department of Neurology, Ospedale San Gerardo, Monza, Italy.

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Keywords: Antibiotic prophylaxis; Glioblastoma; Myelotoxicity; Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia.

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