Serial Procalcitonin Levels Correlate with Microbial Etiology in Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia
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Citation Ankomah, Pierre, Suzanne Mccluskey, Michael Abers, Benjamin Bearnot, Shreya Patel, Philipp Schuetz, Victor Chiappa, Kent Lewandrowski, Jatin Vyas, and Michael Mansour. 2017. “Serial Procalcitonin Levels Correlate with Microbial Etiology in Hospitalized Patients with Pneumonia.” Open Forum Infectious Diseases 4 (Suppl 1): S351. doi:10.1093/ofid/ofx163.846. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.846.
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