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Primary antifungal prophylaxis with micafungin after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a monocentric prospective study

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  1. Service d’hématologie-greffe, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Paris Diderot, 1 avenue Claude Vellefaux, 75475, Paris, Cedex 10, France

    Aliénor Xhaard, Flore Sicre de Fontbrune, Tereza Coman, Marie Robin, Gérard Socié & Régis Peffault de Latour

  2. Centre de Recherche Épidémiologie et Statistique Sorbonne Paris Cité (CRESS-UMR1153), Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, Inserm / Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France

    Raphael Porcher

  3. Service de pneumologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

    Anne Bergeron

  4. Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France

    Alexandre Alanio & Stéphane Bretagne

  5. CNRS, Unité de Mycologie Moléculaire, Centre National de Référence Mycoses Invasives et Antifongiques, Institut Pasteur, URA3012, Paris, France

    Alexandre Alanio & Stéphane Bretagne

  6. Pharmacie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France

    Sophie Touratier

  7. Service de radiologie, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France

    Constance de Margerie-Mellon

  8. Service d’hématologie-adolescents jeunes adultes, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France

    Raphael Itzykson & Aurélie Cabannes-Hamy

  9. Inserm UMR1160, Paris, France

    Gérard Socié

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Xhaard, A., Porcher, R., Bergeron, A. et al. Primary antifungal prophylaxis with micafungin after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: a monocentric prospective study. Ann Hematol 98, 1033–1035 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-018-3530-3

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