High Serum Procalcitonin Levels Do Not Predict Bacteremia in Adult Patients with Acute Fever | Zendy

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High Serum Procalcitonin Levels Do Not Predict Bacteremia in Adult Patients with Acute Fever

Author(s) -

AnneLise Debard,

Cyrille Vautrin,

C. Pariset,

Jacques Bienvenu,

Guillaume Monneret

Publication year - 2003

Publication title -

clinical infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44

H-Index - 336

eISSN - 1537-6591

pISSN - 1058-4838

DOI - 10.1086/368095

Subject(s) - procalcitonin , medicine , bacteremia , fever of unknown origin , intensive care medicine , sepsis , immunology , gastroenterology , antibiotics , microbiology and biotechnology , biology

who are at risk for a complicated course, and who therefore may benefit from early preventive measures appears to be limited [3–5]. When febrile patients are screened for bacteremia at admission to the hospital to identify those for whom a complicated course is possible, sound clinical judgment, based on age, underlying disease, recent history, and, especially, the likely source of infection, rather than measurement of laboratory markers like PCT levels, should guide clinical decisions regarding further microbiological diagnostic tests and empirical antibiotic therapy.

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