Accuracy of serum procalcitonin for the diagnosis of sepsis in neonates and children with systemic inflammatory syndrome: a meta-analysis

BACKGROUND: A number of biomarkers have been studied for the diagnosis of sepsis in paediatrics, but no gold standard has been identified. Procalcitonin (PCT) was demonstrated to be an accurate biomarker for the diagnosis of sepsis in adults and showed to be promising in paediatrics. Our study revie...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMC Infect Dis
Hauptverfasser: Pontrelli, Giuseppe, De Crescenzo, Franco, Buzzetti, Roberto, Jenkner, Alessandro, Balduzzi, Sara, Calò Carducci, Francesca, Amodio, Donato, De Luca, Maia, Chiurchiù, Sara, Davies, Elin Haf, Copponi, Giorgia, Simonetti, Alessandra, Ferretti, Elena, Di Franco, Valeria, Rasi, Virginia, Della Corte, Martina, Gramatica, Luca, Ciabattini, Marco, Livadiotti, Susanna, Rossi, Paolo
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BioMed Central 2017
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5404674/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28438138
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12879-017-2396-7
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