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Procalcitonin in respiratory disease: use as a biomarker for diagnosis and guiding antibiotic therapy
Procalcitonin (PCT) is a peptide measurable in serum which becomes elevated in response to bacterial infection. Multiple trials have explored the safety and efficacy of using PCT as a biomarker to guide decisions about starting or stopping antibiotic therapy in a wide variety of situations, and PCT...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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European Respiratory Society
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6885331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31803264 http://dx.doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0258-2019 |