Combination of clinical symptoms and blood biomarkers can improve discrimination between bacterial or viral community-acquired pneumonia in children

BACKGROUND: Differentiating bacterial from viral pneumonia is important for guiding targeted management and judicious use of antibiotics. We assessed if clinical characteristics and blood inflammatory biomarkers could be used to distinguish bacterial from viral pneumonia. METHODS: Western Australian...

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Autores principales: Bhuiyan, Mejbah U., Blyth, Christopher C., West, Rachel, Lang, Jurissa, Rahman, Tasmina, Granland, Caitlyn, de Gier, Camilla, Borland, Meredith L., Thornton, Ruth B., Kirkham, Lea-Ann S., Martin, Andrew, Richmond, Peter C., Smith, David W., Jaffe, Adam, Snelling, Thomas L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30940126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0835-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6444754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30940126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-019-0835-5

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