Elsevier, Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 11(20), p. 1856-1861, 2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2014.06.034
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Diarrhea, abdominal pain and fever are common among patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplant (HCT), but such symptoms are also typical with foodborne infections. The burden of disease caused by foodborne infections in patients undergoing HCT is unknown. We sought to describe bacterial foodborne infection incidence post-transplant within a single-center population of HCT recipients.