Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica (English ed.)
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Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin (Engl Ed) · Nov 2019
Observational StudyAbility of procalcitonin to differentiate true bacteraemia from contaminated blood cultures in an emergency department.
To analyse and compare the ability of procalcitonin (PCT), C-reactive protein (CRP) and leukocytes to differentiate true bacteraemia from contaminated blood cultures in patients seen in the emergency department (ED) for an episode of infectious disease. ⋯ In blood cultures with positive growth extracted in an ED, PCT achieves the best prognostic performance of true bacteraemia vs. contaminated blood cultures, better than CRP and leukocytes.