Table 1.
Patient identifier | Sex | Age, y | Primary disease | Neutropenia during the week before initial symptoms | Initial symptoms | Laboratory | Complications | Outcomes | ||||||||||
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Fever | Dry cough | Diarrhea | Muscle soreness | CRP | Lymphocytes | Dyspnea within 1 wk | Respiratory failure | Hypo tension shock | Liver dysfunction | Coagulation disorder | Secondary bacterial infection | |||||||
High | Mild/moderate | |||||||||||||||||
Patient 1 | F | 35 | B-ALL | Yes | ✓ | ✓ | ↑ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Recovery | ||||||
Patient 2 | M | 31 | B-ALL | Yes | ✓ | ✓ | ↑ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (DIC) | ✓ | Death | ||||
Patient 3 | M | 51 | SAA | Yes | ✓ | ✓ | ↑ | — | ✓ | ✓ | Recovery | |||||||
Patient 4 | M | 14 | T-ALL | Yes | ✓ | ↑ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (DIC) | ✓ | Death | ||||
Patient 5 | F | 54 | MM | No | ✓ | ↑ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (DIC) | ✓ | Death | |||||
Patient 6 | M | 27 | B-ALL | No | ✓ | ↑ | — | Recovery | ||||||||||
Doctor 1 | M | 37 | No | No | ✓ | Recovery | ||||||||||||
Nurse 1 | F | 29 | No | No | ✓ | ✓ | ↑ | ↓ | Recovery | |||||||||
Nurse 2 | F | 25 | No | No | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ↓ | ✓ | Recovery | ||||||||
Nurse 3 | F | 30 | No | No | ✓ | ✓ | ↑ | ↓ | Recovery | |||||||||
Nurse 4 | F | 32 | HT | No | ✓ | Recovery | ||||||||||||
Nurse 5 | F | 23 | No | No | ✓ | ✓ | Recovery |
—, lymphocyte variation of patients is not available for evaluation because of hematologic disease; B-ALL, acute B-lymphocytic leukemia; CRP, C-reactive protein; DIC, disseminated intravascular coagulation; F, female; HT, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis; M, male; MM, multiple myeloma; SAA, severe aplastic anemia; T-ALL, acute T-lymphocytic leukemia.