Procalcitonin as a biomarker for severe Plasmodium falciparum disease: a critical appraisal of a semi-quantitative point-of-care test in a cohort of travellers with imported malaria

BACKGROUND: Imported malaria occurs as a relatively rare event in developed countries. As a consequence, most clinicians have little experience in making clinical assessments of disease severity and decisions regarding the need for parenteral therapy or high-level monitoring. In this study, the diag...

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Autores principales: Hesselink, Dennis A, Burgerhart, Jan-Steven, Bosmans-Timmerarends, Hanna, Petit, Pieter, van Genderen, Perry JJ
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3224901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19723338
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-8-206

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