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Serial Procalcitonin Levels Correlate with Microbial Etiology in Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia

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0 Published in 2017 at "Open Forum Infectious Diseases"

DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofx163.846

Abstract: Abstract Background Procalcitonin (PCT) is a biomarker that is finding increasing diagnostic and prognostic utility in lower respiratory infections. It remains unclear, however, whether it can be helpful in predicting the bacterial etiology of pneumonia,… read more here.

Keywords: procalcitonin levels; serial procalcitonin; etiology; microbial etiology ... See more keywords