C-reactive protein velocity to distinguish febrile bacterial infections from non-bacterial febrile illnesses in the emergency department

INTRODUCTION: C-reactive protein (CRP) is a real-time and low-cost biomarker to distinguish febrile bacterial infections from non-bacterial febrile illnesses. We hypothesised that measuring the velocity of the biomarker instead of its absolute serum concentration could enhance its ability to differe...

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Autores principales: Paran, Yael, Yablecovitch, Doron, Choshen, Guy, Zeitlin, Ina, Rogowski, Ori, Ben-Ami, Ronen, Katzir, Michal, Saranga, Hila, Rosenzweig, Tovit, Justo, Dan, Orbach, Yaffa, Halpern, Pinhas, Berliner, Shlomo
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2689495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19351421
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc7775

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