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Procalcitonin Is a Marker of Gram-Negative Bacteremia in Patients With Sepsis

BACKGROUND: Prediction of the species of pathogen among patients with sepsis within hours would be helpful in accelerating proper treatment. As a potential method of shortening the time to identification, this study considered the usefulness of measuring procalcitonin (PCT) to predict blood culture...

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Autores principales: Guo, Shun Yuan, Zhou, Yin, Hu, Qing Feng, Yao, Jiong, Wang, Hong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4450899/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25992537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MAJ.0000000000000477