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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...
Autores principales: | Escadafal, Camille, Incardona, Sandra, Fernandez-Carballo, B Leticia, Dittrich, Sabine |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BMJ Publishing Group
2020
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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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