Relationship of serum procalcitonin levels to severity and prognosis in pediatric bacterial meningitis

Clinical Pediatrics

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1141-1144

  Hu, Ruimei ^a   Gong, Yansheng ^b   Wang, Yuzhen ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shandong Academy of Chinese Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

meningitis; procalcitonin; prognosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; PROCALCITONIN; CALCITONIN; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CULTURE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL; VIRUS MENINGITIS; BLOOD; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

ADOLESCENT; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCITONIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MENINGITIS, VIRAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTEIN PRECURSORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC;

EID: 84941205911     PISSN: 00099228     EISSN: 19382707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0009922815569203     Document Type: Article

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