The use of PCT, CRP, IL-6 and SAA in critically ill patients for an early distinction between candidemia and Gram positive/negative bacteremia

Journal of Infection

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 438-440

  Fu, Yang ^a   Chen, Jie ^a   Cai, Bei ^a   Zhang, Junlong ^a   Li, Lixin ^a   Liu, Chang ^a   Kang, Yan ^a   Wang, Lanlan ^a  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; PROCALCITONIN;

ADULT; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CULTURE; CANDIDEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION TEST; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CANDIDEMIA; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SERUM AMYLOID A PROTEIN;

EID: 84862832446     PISSN: 01634453     EISSN: 15322742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinf.2011.12.019     Document Type: Letter

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