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2194. Procalcitonin-Guided Antibiotic Strategy for Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: Outcomes and Safety of Withholding Antibiotics

BACKGROUND: Procalcitonin (PCT) is a promising and well-studied marker in differentiating viral from bacterial lower respiratory tract infections (LRTI). Antibiotics are not recommended when PCT is normal (< 0.25 μg/L). Despite this, it has not been the standard of care due to safety concerns of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Open Forum Infect Dis
Hauptverfasser: Bambino Geno Tai, Don, Goldstein, Robert
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Oxford University Press 2019
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6810131/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1874
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