About the Authors

Vipa Thanachartwet

Affiliation Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Varunee Desakorn

Affiliation Department of Clinical Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Duangjai Sahassananda

Affiliation Information Technology Unit, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Akanitt Jittmittraphap

Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Nittha Oer-areemitr

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Phramongkutklao Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand

Sathaporn Osothsomboon

Affiliation Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Faculty of Tropical Medicine, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Manoon Surabotsophon

Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Department of Medicine, Ramkhamhaeng Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand

Anan Wattanathum

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.