About the Authors
- Vipa Thanachartwet
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Varunee Desakorn
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Affiliation Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Duangjai Sahassananda
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Affiliation Information Technology Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Akanitt Jittmittraphap
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Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Nittha Oer-areemitr
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
- Sathaporn Osothsomboon
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Affiliation Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Manoon Surabotsophon
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Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Ramkhamhaeng Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
- Anan Wattanathum
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* E-mail: wattanathum_anan@hotmail.com
Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Competing Interests
All authors have declared that no competing interests exist in this study. Roche Diagnostics (Thailand) Ltd. provided Elecsys BRAHMS PCT as a gift for this study. All authors have declared that the Roche Diagnostics (Thailand) Ltd. had no role in study design, data collection and/or analysis, the decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: VT VD DS NOa AW. Performed the experiments: VT VD DS AJ NOa SO MS. Analyzed the data: VT VD DS AW. Wrote the paper: VT VD DS MS AW. Literature review: VT VD AW.