Diagnostic Accuracy of Cerebrospinal Fluid Procalcitonin in Bacterial Meningitis Patients with Empiric Antibiotic Pretreatment

Accurate diagnosis of bacterial meningitis (BM) relies on cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) Gram staining and bacterial culture, which often present high false-negative rates because of antibiotic abuse. Thus, a novel and reliable diagnostic biomarker is required. Procalcitonin (PCT) has been well demonstra...

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I publikationen:J Clin Microbiol
Huvudupphovsmän: Li, Wen, Sun, Xiaolong, Yuan, Fang, Gao, Qiong, Ma, Yue, Jiang, Yongli, Yang, Xiai, Yang, Fang, Ma, Lei, Jiang, Wen
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: American Society for Microbiology 2017
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Bacteriology
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5377847/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28179405
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02018-16
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