The good and the bad: using C reactive protein to distinguish bacterial from non-bacterial infection among febrile patients in low-resource settings

C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A point-of-care test for bacterial infections would be of particular use in low-resource settings whe...

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Autores principales: Escadafal, Camille, Incardona, Sandra, Fernandez-Carballo, B Leticia, Dittrich, Sabine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2020
Materias:
Analysis
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7259834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32467355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002396

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7259834/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32467355
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2020-002396

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