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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...
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. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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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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