Empiric therapy with carbenicillin and gentamicin for febrile patients with cancer and granulocytopenia.

Agranulocytosis/complications Bacteria/drug effects Carbenicillin/administration & dosage,blood,pharmacology,toxicity Drug Synergism Fever/complications Gentamicins/administration & dosage,blood,pharmacology,toxicity Humans Infections/drug therapy,microbiology Klebsiella Infections/drug therapy Leukemia/complications Microbial Sensitivity Tests Neoplasms/complications Penicillins/administration & dosage Pseudomonas Infections/drug therapy Pseudomonas aeruginosa/isolation & purification Sepsis/drug therapy

Gentamicins Penicillins Carbenicillin