ArticleInternational journal of general medicine2016
Ability of procalcitonin to diagnose bacterial infection and bacteria types compared with blood culture findings.
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- Diagnostic and Clinical Value of Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing for Pediatric Respiratory Infections in Northern China.The clinical respiratory journal · 2026Article
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- Challenges of Antibiotic Stewardship in the Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Units.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2021Article
- Ability of serum procalcitonin to distinguish focus of infection and pathogen types in patients with bloodstream infection.Annals of translational medicine · 2019Article
- The effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests results on antimicrobial prescription practices of health care workers in Burkina Faso.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2019Article
- A Novel Combination of Biomarkers to Herald the Onset of Sepsis Prior to the Manifestation of Symptoms.Shock (Augusta, Ga.) · 2018Review
- The use of procalcitonin in the determination of severity of sepsis, patient outcomes and infection characteristics.PloS one · 2018Article
- Procalcitonin as a biomarker of bacterial infection in critically ill patients admitted with suspected Sepsis in Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care hospital.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
Procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein serve as biomarkers of infection in patients with sepsis/bacteremia. The present study assessed the clinical characteristics of 280 patients with suspected sepsis who were admitted to Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital between January 2012 and December 2013. Among the patients, 133 and 147 were positive and negative for PCT, respectively. Patients who were PCT positive were older and more frequently male, had reduced levels of platelets and albumin, and increased levels of aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase, blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, and C-reactive protein. Patients who were PCT positive had significantly higher blood culture positivity compared with those who were PCT negative, and the sensitivity and specificity of PCT for detecting positive blood cultures were 74.5% and 59.1%, respectively.
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