Using the kinetics of C-reactive protein response to improve the differential diagnosis between acute bacterial and viral infections.

Purpose: Differential diagnosis between acute viral and bacterial infection is an emerging common challenge for a physician in the emergency department. Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) is used to support diagnosis of bacterial infection, but in patients admitted with low CRP, its ability to discrimin...

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Published in:	Infection Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 241 - 249
Main Authors:	Coster, Dan, Wasserman, Asaf, Fisher, Eyal, Rogowski, Ori, Zeltser, David, Shapira, Itzhak, Bernstein, Daniel, Meilik, Ahuva, Raykhshtat, Eli, Halpern, Pinchas, Berliner, Shlomo, Shenhar-Tsarfaty, Shani, Shamir, Ron
Format:	research tables/charts Journal Article
Published:	Springer Nature Apr2020
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost