Response of letter to the editor on Procalcitonin: a promising diagnostic marker for sepsis and antibiotic therapy

In a letter to the editor, Raineri SM et al. have given an insight of another dimension of procalcitonin (PCT) use as a diagnostic tool in invasive candidiasis. But based on our preliminary information, PCT is reported as unconventional modes of diagnosis approach which yet to prove its stand-alone...

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Autores principales: Saikant, R., Ravindran, Shilpa, Vijayan, Ashitha, Maya, Vani, Lakshmi, S., Kartik, R., G., Manoj
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-017-0260-x
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author Saikant, R.
Ravindran, Shilpa
Vijayan, Ashitha
Maya, Vani
Lakshmi, S.
Kartik, R.
G., Manoj
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spelling pubmed-57197222017-12-11 Response of letter to the editor on Procalcitonin: a promising diagnostic marker for sepsis and antibiotic therapy Saikant, R. Ravindran, Shilpa Vijayan, Ashitha Maya, Vani Lakshmi, S. Kartik, R. G., Manoj J Intensive Care Letter to the Editor In a letter to the editor, Raineri SM et al. have given an insight of another dimension of procalcitonin (PCT) use as a diagnostic tool in invasive candidiasis. But based on our preliminary information, PCT is reported as unconventional modes of diagnosis approach which yet to prove its stand-alone biomarker properties for invasive candidiasis. BioMed Central 2017-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5719722/ /pubmed/29234495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-017-0260-x Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Lakshmi, S.
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Response of letter to the editor on Procalcitonin: a promising diagnostic marker for sepsis and antibiotic therapy
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title_short Response of letter to the editor on Procalcitonin: a promising diagnostic marker for sepsis and antibiotic therapy
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topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5719722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29234495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40560-017-0260-x
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