The use of procalcitonin in the determination of severity of sepsis, patient outcomes and infection characteristics

Iram Yunus; Anum Fasih; Yanzhi Wang

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0206527

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The use of procalcitonin in the determination of severity of sepsis, patient outcomes and infection characteristics

Iram Yunus ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Iram Yunus, Anum Fasih

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, The University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, United States of America
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Anum Fasih ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Iram Yunus, Anum Fasih

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: anum.fasih@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, The University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5886-0607

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Yanzhi Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, United States of America
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The use of procalcitonin in the determination of severity of sepsis, patient outcomes and infection characteristics

Iram Yunus,
Anum Fasih,
Yanzhi Wang

Published: November 14, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206527

About the Authors

Iram Yunus

Contributed equally to this work with: Iram Yunus, Anum Fasih

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, The University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, United States of America

Anum Fasih

Contributed equally to this work with: Iram Yunus, Anum Fasih

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: anum.fasih@hotmail.com

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, The University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5886-0607

Yanzhi Wang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, College of Medicine at Peoria, Peoria, IL, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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