Serum procalcitonin as a biomarker of bloodstream infection & focal bacterial infection in febrile patients

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES: Bacteraemia is a serious form of infection in patients presenting with fever, thus, there is a necessity for a biomarker for rapid diagnosis of bacteraemia in such patients to make better therapeutic decisions. This study was conducted to measure the serum procalcitonin...

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Autores principales: Harikrishna, Janjam, Mohan, Alladi, Kalyana Chakravarthi, D.P., Chaudhury, Abhijit, Kumar, B. Siddhartha, Sarma, K.V.S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7371069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32461398
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_324_18

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7371069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32461398
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijmr.IJMR_324_18

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