ArticleClinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America2017
Procalcitonin: The Right Answer but to Which Question?
Article in Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evaluating the InSignia IFI27 expression assay for detecting viral respiratory infection compared to a traditional gene normalisation assay.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Persistently high plasma procalcitonin levels despite successful treatment of tuberculous pleuritis and tuberculous lymphadenitis patients.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Reduced Reliability of Procalcitonin (PCT) as a Biomarker of Bacterial Superinfection: Concerns about PCT-Driven Antibiotic Stewardship in Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients-Results from a Retrospective Observational Study in Intensive Care Units.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Diagnostic Accuracy of a Bacterial and Viral Biomarker Point-of-Care Test in the Outpatient Setting.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Association Between Procalcitonin and Antibiotics in Children With Community-Acquired Pneumonia.Hospital pediatrics · 2022Article
- Dual RNA-Seq Enables Full-Genome Assembly of Measles Virus and Characterization of Host-Pathogen Interactions.Microorganisms · 2021Article
- A comparison of host response strategies to distinguish bacterial and viral infection.PloS one · 2021Article
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