Procalcitonin in systemic and localized bacterial infection

Biochemia Medica

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 236-241

  Pavic, Marina ^a   Bronic, Ana ^a   Kopcinovic, Lara Milevoj ^a  

^a KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Critically ill patients; Localized bacterial infection; Procalcitonin; Systemic bacterial infection

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE MARKER; GRANULOCYTE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOCALIZED BACTERIAL INFECTION; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTEMIC BACTERIAL INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 77953843146     PISSN: 13300962     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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