Elevated inflammatory markers combined with positive pneumococcal urinary antigen are a good predictor of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia in children

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Title		Elevated inflammatory markers combined with positive pneumococcal urinary antigen are a good predictor of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia in children
Authors		Galetto-Lacour, Annick Alcoba Wright, Fermin Gabriel Posfay Barbe, Klara Cevey-Macherel, Manon Gehri, Mario Ochs, Martina M Brookes, Roger H Siegrist, Claire-Anne Gervaix, Alain show all authors [1 - 9]
Published in		The Pediatric infectious disease journal. 2013, vol. 32, no. 11, p. 1175-9
Abstract		Our objective was to evaluate procalcitonin (PCT) and C-reactive protein (CRP) as predictors of a pneumococcal etiology in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) in hospitalized children.
Identifiers		DOI: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31829ba62a PMID: 23694836
Full text		Article (Published version) (460 Kb) - Limited access to UNIGE
Structures		Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de pédiatrie, gynécologie et obstétrique
Research groups		Centre de Vaccinologie et d'Immunologie néonatale (177) Etiologie des pneumonies et marqueurs inflammatoires chez l'enfant fébrile (183) Recherche en infectiologie pédiatrique et en pédiatrie générale (853)
Citation (ISO format)		GALETTO-LACOUR, Annick et al. Elevated inflammatory markers combined with positive pneumococcal urinary antigen are a good predictor of pneumococcal community-acquired pneumonia in children. In: The Pediatric infectious disease journal, 2013, vol. 32, n° 11, p. 1175-9. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e31829ba62a https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:35500