Potential usefulness of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin determination in patients admitted for neurological disorders in rural Democratic Republic of Congo

In low-resource hospitals of central Africa, neurological disorders are frequent and etiologies very diverse. The difficulty to identify invasive bacterial infections in this setting results in major antibiotic overuse. Biomarkers such as C-reactive protein (CRP) and procalcitonin (PCT) may help dis...

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Auteurs principaux: Bottieau, Emmanuel, Mukendi, Deby, Kalo, Jean-Roger Lilo, Lutumba, Pascal, Barbé, Barbara, Ramadan, Kadrie, Van Esbroeck, Marjan, Jacobs, Jan, Yansouni, Cedric P., Chappuis, François, Boelaert, Marleen, Winkler, Andrea S., Verdonck, Kristien
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Langue:Inglês
Publié: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6820716/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31664120
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-51925-z
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