@article{5cb89078c67e47709ef47e278417be22,
title = "Infection Rates among Acute Leukemia Patients Receiving Alternative Donor Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation",
abstract = "Alternative graft sources (umbilical cord blood [UCB], matched unrelated donors [MUD], or mismatched unrelated donors [MMUD]) enable patients without a matched sibling donor to receive potentially curative hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Retrospective studies demonstrate comparable outcomes among different graft sources. However, the risk and types of infections have not been compared among graft sources. Such information may influence the choice of a particular graft source. We compared the incidence of bacterial, viral, and fungal infections in 1781 adults with acute leukemia who received alternative donor HCT (UCB, n=?568; MUD, n?=?930; MMUD, n?=?283) between 2008 and 2011. The incidences of bacterial infection at 1 year were 72\%, 59\%, and 65\% (P?",
keywords = "Umbilical cord blood, Leukemia, Infection",
author = "Ballen, \{Karen K.\} and Ahn, \{Kwang Woo\} and Wei-Min Chen and Hisham Abdel-Azim and Ibrahim Ahmed and Aljurf, \{Mahmoud D.\} and Antin, \{Joseph H.\} and Bhatt, \{Ami S.\} and Michael Boeckh and George Chen and Christopher Dandoy and Biju George and Laughlin, \{Mary. J.\} and Lazarus, \{Hillard M.\} and MacMillan, \{Margaret L.\} and Margolis, \{David A.\} and Marks, \{David I.\} and Maxim Norkin and Joseph Rosenthal and Ayman Saad and Savani, \{Bipin N.\} and Hendricus Schouten and Jan Storek and Paul Szabolcs and Celalettin Ustun and Verneris, \{Michael R.\} and Waller, \{Edmund K.\} and Weisdorf, \{Daniel J.\} and Williams, \{Kirsten M.\} and Wingard, \{John R.\} and Wirk, \{Baldeep M.\} and Tom Wolfs and Young, \{Jo-Anne H.\} and Jeffrey Auletta and Komanduri, \{Krishna V.\} and Caroline Lindemans and Riches, \{Marcie L.\}",
year = "2016",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.bbmt.2016.06.012",
language = "English",
volume = "22",
pages = "1636--1645",
journal = "Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation",
issn = "1083-8791",
publisher = "Elsevier Inc.",
number = "9",
}