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In response to inflammation, procalcitonin plasma concentrations increase more rapidly than other acute‐phase reactants and higher values are associated with severe disease. Procalcitonin measurements assist in determining whether antibiotic therapy… Click to show full abstract
In response to inflammation, procalcitonin plasma concentrations increase more rapidly than other acute‐phase reactants and higher values are associated with severe disease. Procalcitonin measurements assist in determining whether antibiotic therapy should be used. point‐of‐care testing (POCT) is performed for early decision making about additional testing or therapy. The ABSOGEN™ PCT (Bumyoungbio, Inc., Suwon, Korea) is a rapid novel semi‐quantitative immunochromatographic PCT assay that analyses whole blood samples. We compared the patient quantitative test results to ABSOGEN™ PCT test results.
Journal Title: Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis
Year Published: 2017
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