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Clinical utility of procalcitonin in febrile infants younger than 3 months of age visiting a pediatric emergency room: a retrospective single-center study

BACKGROUND: Fever in infants under 90 days of age is highly likely to be caused by a severe bacterial infection (SBI) and it accounts for a large number of patients visiting the pediatric emergency room. In order to predict the bacterial infection and reduce unnecessary treatment, the classic classi...

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Autores principales: Park, Jun-Sung, Byun, Young-Hoon, Lee, Jeong-Yong, Lee, Jong Seung, Ryu, Jeong-Min, Choi, Seung Jun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7931518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33663442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02568-5