Ability of Procalcitonin to Discriminate Infection from Non-Infective Inflammation Using Two Pleural Disease Settings

• Fiona J. McCann,

  Affiliation Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine and University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Stephen J. Chapman,

  Affiliation Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine and University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Wai Cho Yu,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong, Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China

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• Nick A. Maskell,

  Affiliation North Bristol Lung Centre, Southmead Hospital, Bristol, United Kingdom

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• Robert J. O. Davies †,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert J. O. Davies, Y. C. Gary Lee

  † Deceased.

  Affiliation Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine and University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Y. C. Gary Lee

  Contributed equally to this work with: Robert J. O. Davies, Y. C. Gary Lee

  * E-mail: gary.lee@uwa.edu.au

  Affiliations Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine and University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Centre for Asthma, Allergy and Respiratory Research, School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

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