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. 2021 Oct 11;269(5):2513–2526. doi: 10.1007/s00415-021-10820-2

Table 2.

Infections during hospitalization and for the first year after autologous HSCT

Site / pathogen During hospitalization From hospital discharge until day 100 100 days until one year post-HSCT
Mucosal surfaces total 1 86 83
Oral HSV 1 1
Oral / vaginal candida 10 2
Sinusitis bacteria 12 17
Otitis media bacteria 1 3
URTI non-specific, bacterial 18 20
URTI—viral
RSV 3 1
Rhinovirus 1 1
Influenza A 2 1
Influenza B 3 3
Parainfluenza 2
Metapneumonia 2
Urinary tract infections total 0 31 35
UTIs- bacterial 28 34
UTIs-viral
BK virus 2 1
Adenovirus 1
Cutaneous total 0 1 13
Cutaneous Bacterial 1 1
Cutaneous VZV- dermatomal 12
Blood bacteremia total 1
Blood cultures Gram positive & 3 coagulase-negative staphylococcus aureus in one of two cultures / deemed skin contaminant
Blood cultures Gram negative 1 Klebsiella pneumoniae
Stool clostridium difficile 6 1 2
Lung pneumonia 1 legionella 3 “walking” @ 3- “walking”@
Viral systemic total 0 0 0
CMV reactivation 0 58 Not monitored
CMV disease 0 0 0
EBV infection 0 0 0
PML 0 0 0

@Walking pneumonia means treated as outpatient with oral antibiotics & Coagulase-negative staphylococcus from peripheral blood draws were deemed skin contaminants, because the simultaneously drawn cultures from the central line were negative