Michael May, Michelle Chang, Donald Dietz, Sherif Shoucri, Justin Laracy, Magdalena E Sobieszczyk, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Jason Zucker, Christine J Kubin
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2021 Mar 18The role of procalcitonin in identifying community-associated bacterial infections among patients with coronavirus disease 2019 is not yet established. In 2,443 patients of whom 148 had bacterial coinfections, mean procalcitonin levels were significantly higher with any bacterial infection (13.16 ± 51.19 ng/ml; P = 0.0091) and with bacteremia (34.25 ± 85.01 ng/ml; P = 0.0125) than without infection (2.00 ± 15.26 ng/ml). Procalcitonin (cutoff, 0.25 or 0.50 ng/ml) did not reliably identify bacterial coinfections but may be useful in excluding bacterial infection. Copyright © 2021 American Society for Microbiology.
Michael May, Michelle Chang, Donald Dietz, Sherif Shoucri, Justin Laracy, Magdalena E Sobieszczyk, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Jason Zucker, Christine J Kubin. Limited Utility of Procalcitonin in Identifying Community-Associated Bacterial Infections in Patients Presenting with Coronavirus Disease 2019. Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy. 2021 Mar 18;65(4)
PMID: 33495224
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