A Host of Host Assays: The Clinical Accuracy of Two Host Gene Expression Assays in Acute Infection

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
² Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

Editorial

Caitlyn Vlasschaert et al. Crit Care Med. 2021.

. 2021 Oct 1;49(10):1812-1814.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000005220.

¹ Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
² Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have disclosed that they do not have any potential conflicts of interest.

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