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ArticleThe Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy2026

Procalcitonin in the management of lower respiratory tract infection and sepsis.

Ramy H Elshaboury, Joshua P Metlay, Mike Broyles, Chanu Rhee, Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis, Michael K Mansour

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Article in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ramy H ElshabouryDepartment of Pharmacy, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2752-742X
Joshua P MetlayDivision of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Mike BroylesDirector of Global Medical Affairs, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA.
Chanu RheeDivision of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9537-4245
Evangelos J Giamarellos-Bourboulis4th Department of Internal Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School, Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-4713-3911
Michael K MansourDivision of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8892-8695

Funding

BRAHMS GmbH
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Identifiers

PMID41312720
PMCPMC12957930

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