Table 1.
Study population characteristics.
Fig 1.
Distribution of CRP (A) and eCRPv (B) according to source of infection.
Patients with bacterial infections presented with higher CRP levels upon ED admission and higher eCRPV levels compared to patients with viral infections.
Fig 2.
Correlation between absolute CRP concentrations and CRP velocity.
Patients with bacterial infections presented with higher correlations between admission CRP (mg/L) and eCRPv (mg/L/h) compared to patients with viral infections. The triangles indicate patients with a bacterial infection and the circles indicate patients with a viral infection.
Fig 3.
The ratio between bacterial (blue) and viral (orange color) infections in each range of CRP values.
Fig 4.
The ratio between bacterial (blue) and viral (orange color) infections in each range of eCRPv values.
Fig 5.
eCRPv values for the groups of patients with iso-CRP levels.
Higher eCRPv values were observed almost exclusively among patients with CRP levels >150 mg/L who had validated bacterial infections.
Table 2.
eCRPv per CRP levels (iso-CRP).