Can Procalcitonin in Cerebrospinal Fluid be a Diagnostic Tool for Meningitis?

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 169-174

  Konstantinidis, Theocharis ^a   Cassimos, Dimitrios ^b   Gioka, Theodora ^c   Tsigalou, Christina ^c   Parasidis, Theodoros ^a   Alexandropoulou, Ioanna ^a   Nikolaidis, Christos ^a   Kampouromiti, Georgia ^c   Constantinidis, Theodoros ^b   Chatzimichael, Athanasios ^b   Panopoulou, Maria ^b  

^a Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY GENERAL HOSPITAL OF ALEXANDROUPOLIS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bacterial; Cerebrospinal fluid; Meningitis; Procalcitonin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GLUCOSE; PROCALCITONIN; PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS INFECTION; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTION; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROTEIN CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS MENINGITIS; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; LEUKOCYTE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929331427     PISSN: 08878013     EISSN: 10982825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcla.21746     Document Type: Article

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