[Catamnestic studies on infections in granulocytopenias].

Granulocytopenias in insufficiencies of the bone marrow, haemoblastoses and other basic diseases led to an increased endangering by infections and frequency of infections. As a rule, here was decisive the scope of the decrease of the granulocytes, measured at the morbidity by infections, the degree of severity of the infection, the frequency and the duration of fever episodes. Despite improved possibilities of antimicrobial treatment the complications by infection in granulocytopenias increased, so that the prophylaxis of the infection is of particular significance.