Procalcitonin marker for sepsis diagnosis. Evaluating a rapid immunochromatografic test

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 422-424

  Naeini, Alireza E ^a   Montazerolghaem, Shahin ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MALE; PERFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEPSIS;

EID: 33644977431     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 03795284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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