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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 |
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| Format: | Artigo |
| Sprache: | Inglês |
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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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