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Plasma procalcitonin concentrations predict organ dysfunction and outcome in dogs with sepsis

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12917-018-1427-y

Published Online: 2018-03-27

Published Print: 2018-12

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Authors

Troia, Roberta

Giunti, Massimo

Goggs, Robert http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7446-6987
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Funding for this research was provided by:

College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University

Università di Bologna (BIR15Q8)
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Article History

Received: 16 October 2017

Accepted: 14 March 2018

First Online: 27 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: All dogs with sepsis were prospectively enrolled between 02/2015 and 04/2017 in a study investigating MODS. That study was approved by the local Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (University of Bologna, DL 26/2014, Project 846) and was undertaken with written informed client consent. Twelve healthy privately-owned blood donor dogs were enrolled as controls (University of Bologna, Project 581) with informed client consent.

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