Procalcitonin Levels Associate with Severity of Clostridium difficile Infection

OBJECTIVE: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of morbidity and biomarkers that predict severity of illness are needed. Procalcitonin (PCT), a serum biomarker with specificity for bacterial infections, has been little studied in CDI. We hypothesized that PCT associated with CDI se...

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Autores principales: Rao, Krishna, Walk, Seth T., Micic, Dejan, Chenoweth, Elizabeth, Deng, Lili, Galecki, Andrzej T., Jain, Ruchika, Trivedi, Itishree, Yu, Marie, Santhosh, Kavitha, Ring, Cathrin, Young, Vincent B., Huffnagle, Gary B., Aronoff, David M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058265

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505476
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058265

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