Procalcitonin as a Biomarker for a Bacterial Infection on Hospital Admission: A Critical Appraisal in a Cohort of Travellers with Fever after a Stay in (Sub)tropics

Fever in a returned traveller may be the manifestation of a self-limiting, trivial infection but it can also presage an infection that can be rapidly progressive and lethal. We studied the diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) as a biomarker for a bacterial cause of fever in a cohort of 157 con...

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Autores principales: Hesselink, Dennis A., Bosmans-Timmerarends, Hanna, Burgerhart, Jan-Steven, Petit, Pieter L., van Genderen, Perry J.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20016801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/137609

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2792948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20016801
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/137609

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