Superiority of transcriptional profiling over procalcitonin for distinguishing bacterial from viral lower respiratory tract infections in hospitalized adults

Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 213-222

  Suarez, Nicolas M ^a   Bunsow, Eleonora ^a   Falsey, Ann R ^b,c   Walsh, Edward E ^b,c   Mejias, Asuncion ^a   Ramilo, Octavio ^a,d  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c ROCHESTER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d THE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT NATIONWIDE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterial infections; lower respiratory tract infection; microarrays; procalcitonin; viral infections

Indexed keywords

PROCALCITONIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IFI44 GENE; IFIT2 GENE; IFIT3 GENE; INFLAMMATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; K NEAREST NEIGHBOR; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; OAS2 GENE; OASL GENE; PARP9 GENE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAPID TEST; RSAD2 GENE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTIONAL PROFILING; VIRUS; VIRUS GENE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOSPITALIZATION; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CALCITONIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCOCCAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84930090652     PISSN: 00221899     EISSN: 15376613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiv047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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