Monocyte distribution width (MDW) as a useful indicator for early screening of sepsis and discriminating false positive blood cultures

• Sung Jin Jo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5216-7732

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• Sei Won Kim,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation

  Affiliation Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

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• Jung-Hyun Choi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

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• Seoung Pill Choi,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Emergency Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

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• Jehoon Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

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• Jihyang Lim

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ljh117@catholic.ac.kr

  Affiliation Department of Laboratory Medicine, Eunpyeong St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1459-8843

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