The role of neutrophil to lymphocyte count ratio in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis and bacterial community-acquired pneumonia: A cross-sectional study at Ayder and Mekelle Hospitals, Ethiopia

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2019, Pages 527-533

  Berhane, Muruts ^a   Melku, Mulugeta ^b   Amsalu, Anteneh ^b   Enawgaw, Bamlaku ^b   Getaneh, Zegeye ^b   Asrie, Fikir ^b  

^a MEKELLE UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Lymphocyte; Neutrophil; Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; Pneumonia; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL LYMPHOCYTE RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CYTOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUTROPHIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUTROPHILS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; ROC CURVE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85064722323     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2018.180833     Document Type: Article

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