Infection syndrome in acute radiation sickness patients subjected to Chernobyl accident
Ivanov, A.A.; Baranov, A.E.; Shal'nova, G.A.; Solov'ev, V.Iu.; Ulanova, A.M.; Kuz'mina, T.D.; Mal'tsev, V.N.; Nadezhina, N.M.; Ignatov, A.N.; Kvacheva, I.E.; Gutsenko, K.K.; Khaustova, L.I.
Meditsina Truda i Promyshlennaia Ekologiia 2005(3): 1-7
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 1026-9428 PMID: 15859499 Document Number: 592506
In spite of intensive antimicrobial prophylaxis and therapy, most patients with acute radiation sickness I-IV severity grade (dose of 0.1 - 13.7 Gy) developed infections caused by bacteria, fungi and viruses. Frequency and intensity of those infections were proportional to the radiation dose and severity grade of radiation sickness.