Toofani Milani, A and Rostaminasab, S and Mohammadian, M and Akbarzadeh Khiyavi, A and Ahmadi, Z and Paribananaem, R (2018) Procalcitonin Testing Reduce Unnecessary Antibiotic Use in Bacterial Infection. Asian Pac J Cancer Care, 4 (1). pp. 11-13.
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Abstract
Conventional diagnostic test have limitations to deferential diagnosis in clinical suspicion of bacterial infection cases, that in some cases lead to inappropriate antibiotic therapy and increases antibiotic resistance. Methods: This paper is narrative review that explores the usefulness of procalcitonin (PCT) in the diagnosis of bacterial infections. Reslut: Serum PCT levels are of useful test as a biomarker in patients with bacterial infections for several reasons. Initial rise of PCT levels due to bacterial infection, subsequent sequential PCT levels can be used to assess the effectiveness and duration of antibiotic therapy. Based on clinical researches results, in bacterial infections, promising good results obtained when use of PCT used as differential diagnostic test. Conclusion: With the data and information available for PCT, further intervention studies are needed before use of PCT in clinical routine tests
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Procalcitonin Testing- Bacterial infection- biomarker- antibiotic resistance |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email gholipour.s@umsu.ac.ir |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2019 06:18 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2019 06:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.umsu.ac.ir/id/eprint/5440 |
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