Time Course of C-Reactive Protein and Procalcitonin Levels During the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin Infections

In a pilot study of 22 patients with an acute bacterial skin infection, serum levels of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin tended to be elevated at presentation and declined within 3–5 days of treatment. Further study of a biomarker-guided treatment strategy to reduce antibiotic overuse in skin in...

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Autores principales: Jenkins, Timothy C, Haukoos, Jason S, Cotton, Eleanor, Weitzenkamp, David, Frank, Daniel N, Burman, William J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5830966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29516022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy029
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author Jenkins, Timothy C
Haukoos, Jason S
Cotton, Eleanor
Weitzenkamp, David
Frank, Daniel N
Burman, William J
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description In a pilot study of 22 patients with an acute bacterial skin infection, serum levels of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin tended to be elevated at presentation and declined within 3–5 days of treatment. Further study of a biomarker-guided treatment strategy to reduce antibiotic overuse in skin infections is warranted.
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spelling pubmed-58309662018-03-07 Time Course of C-Reactive Protein and Procalcitonin Levels During the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin Infections Jenkins, Timothy C Haukoos, Jason S Cotton, Eleanor Weitzenkamp, David Frank, Daniel N Burman, William J Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report In a pilot study of 22 patients with an acute bacterial skin infection, serum levels of C-reactive protein and procalcitonin tended to be elevated at presentation and declined within 3–5 days of treatment. Further study of a biomarker-guided treatment strategy to reduce antibiotic overuse in skin infections is warranted. Oxford University Press 2018-01-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5830966/ /pubmed/29516022 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy029 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy029
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