Procalcitonin as a Marker of Etiology in Adults Hospitalized With Community-Acquired Pneumonia

BACKGROUND. Recent trials suggest procalcitonin-based guidelines can reduce antibiotic use for respiratory infections. However, the accuracy of procalcitonin to discriminate between viral and bacterial pneumonia requires further dissection. METHODS. We evaluated the association between serum procalc...

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Published in:Clin Infect Dis
Main Authors: Self, Wesley H., Balk, Robert A., Grijalva, Carlos G., Williams, Derek J., Zhu, Yuwei, Anderson, Evan J., Waterer, Grant W., Courtney, D. Mark, Bramley, Anna M., Trabue, Christopher, Fakhran, Sherene, Blaschke, Anne J., Jain, Seema, Edwards, Kathryn M., Wunderink, Richard G.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Oxford University Press 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5850442/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28407054
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/cix317
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