The good and the bad: using C reactive protein to distinguish bacterial from non-bacterial infection among febrile patients in low-resource settings

C reactive protein (CRP), a marker for the presence of an inflammatory process, is the most extensively studied marker for distinguishing bacterial from non-bacterial infections in febrile patients. A point-of-care test for bacterial infections would be of particular use in low-resource settings whe...

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Main Authors: Camille Escadafal, Sabine Dittrich, Sandra Incardona, B Leticia Fernandez-Carballo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2020-05-01
Series:BMJ Global Health
Online Access:https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/5/e002396.full
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