Dear PCT, you are not a specific marker of bacterial infection

Comment

Guillaume Monneret. Intensive Care Med. 2002 Mar.

. 2002 Mar;28(3):377-8.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-002-1222-9. Epub 2002 Feb 8.

No abstract available

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Procalcitonin as a marker of the systemic inflammatory response to infection.
Reinhart K, Karzai W, Meisner M. Reinhart K, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2000 Sep;26(9):1193-200. doi: 10.1007/s001340000624. Intensive Care Med. 2000. PMID: 11089742 Free PMC article. Review. No abstract available.
Massive elevation of procalcitonin plasma levels in the absence of infection in kidney transplant patients treated with pan-T-cell antibodies.
Sabat R, Höflich C, Döcke WD, Oppert M, Kern F, Windrich B, Rosenberger C, Kaden J, Volk HD, Reinke P. Sabat R, et al. Intensive Care Med. 2001 Jun;27(6):987-91. doi: 10.1007/s001340100949. Intensive Care Med. 2001. PMID: 11497157