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Oral Bacterial, Viral, and Fungal Infections

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Infections are common among cancer patients; this may be either due to the underlying disease or due to therapy and an immunocompromised host. Common and uncommon infections are discussed here under the broad categories of bacterial, fungal, and viral infections and their management.

Keywords

  • Candidiasis
  • Herpes viruses
  • Dental infections
  • Antibiotics
  • Antivirals
  • Antifungal agents

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  1. Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    Yuanming Xu

  2. Department of Oral Medicine Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Yuanming Xu

  3. Department of Orofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Alessandro Villa

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Xu, Y., Villa, A. (2022). Oral Bacterial, Viral, and Fungal Infections. In: Nair, R. (eds) Orofacial Supportive Care in Cancer . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86510-8_6

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