Serum procalcitonin elevation in critically ill patients at the onset of bacteremia caused by either gram negative or gram positive bacteria
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- 26 March 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Infectious Diseases
- Vol. 8 (1), 38
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-8-38
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