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We have surveyed septicemic episodes occuring in individuals with acute leukemia and have found two factors favorably influencing survival, mainly granulocyte counts over 1,000 mm3 and gram-positive bacteremias. In contrast, blood cultures persistently positive for longer than 48 hours were a bad prognosticator. Significantly, patients with gram-positive bacteremia had received less antibiotics in the week prior to septicemia than had patients with gram-negative bacteremia.
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