Procalcitonin as a Biomarker for a Bacterial Infection on Hospital Admission : A Critical Appraisal in a Cohort of Travellers with Fever after a Stay in (Sub)tropics
المؤلفون المشاركون
Petit, Pieter L.
Burgerhart, Jan-Steven
Hesselink, Dennis A.
van Genderen, Perry J.
Bosmans-Timmerarends, Hanna
المصدر
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases
العدد
المجلد 2009، العدد 2009 (31 ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2009)، ص ص. 1-7، 7ص.
الناشر
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
تاريخ النشر
2009-11-18
دولة النشر
مصر
عدد الصفحات
7
التخصصات الرئيسية
الملخص EN
Fever in a returned traveller may be the manifestation of a self-limiting, trivial infection but it can also presage an infection that can be rapidly progressive and lethal.
We studied the diagnostic accuracy of procalcitonin (PCT) as a biomarker for a bacterial cause of fever in a cohort of 157 consecutive travellers with fever after a stay in the (sub)tropics.
Elevated procalcitonin levels were observed not only in about 50% of travellers with proven bacterial infection, but also in a significant proportion of travellers with a likely infection.
Using a cutoff point of 0.5 ng/mL, procalcitonin had a sensitivity of 0.52 and a specificity of 0.76 for a bacterial cause of fever on admission.
Interestingly, only 1 out of 16 patients with a proven viral infection had a marginally elevated PCT concentration on admission, suggesting that an increased PCT level likely excludes a viral infection as the cause of fever.
However, the diagnostic accuracy of this semiquantitative procalcitonin test for a bacterial cause of fever on admission is too poor to advocate its use in the initial clinical evaluation of fever in a setting of ill-returned travellers.
نمط استشهاد جمعية علماء النفس الأمريكية (APA)
Hesselink, Dennis A.& Bosmans-Timmerarends, Hanna& Burgerhart, Jan-Steven& Petit, Pieter L.& van Genderen, Perry J.. 2009. Procalcitonin as a Biomarker for a Bacterial Infection on Hospital Admission : A Critical Appraisal in a Cohort of Travellers with Fever after a Stay in (Sub)tropics. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases،Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-448678
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الأمريكية للغات الحديثة (MLA)
Hesselink, Dennis A.…[et al.]. Procalcitonin as a Biomarker for a Bacterial Infection on Hospital Admission : A Critical Appraisal in a Cohort of Travellers with Fever after a Stay in (Sub)tropics. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases No. 2009 (2009), pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-448678
نمط استشهاد الجمعية الطبية الأمريكية (AMA)
Hesselink, Dennis A.& Bosmans-Timmerarends, Hanna& Burgerhart, Jan-Steven& Petit, Pieter L.& van Genderen, Perry J.. Procalcitonin as a Biomarker for a Bacterial Infection on Hospital Admission : A Critical Appraisal in a Cohort of Travellers with Fever after a Stay in (Sub)tropics. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases. 2009. Vol. 2009, no. 2009, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-448678
نوع البيانات
مقالات
لغة النص
الإنجليزية
الملاحظات
Includes bibliographical references
رقم السجل
BIM-448678
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