Procalcitonin as marker for bacterial coinfection among adult COVID-19 patients in a tertiary-care hospital in the Philippines

Background: Antimicrobials are often given to patients with COVID-19 despite the absence of a bacterial coinfection. Procalcitonin (PCT), when elevated, often indicates the presence of a bacterial infection and is used to guide empiric antibiotic therapy. We sought to determine the utility of PCT an...

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Main Authors: Angelie Lorraine Pesebre (Author), Cybele Lara Abad (Author), Jan Jorge Francisco (Author), Justin Allister Ong (Author)
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Published: Cambridge University Press, 2022-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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