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Cerebrospinal fluid procalcitonin predicts Gram-negative bacterial meningitis in patients with empiric antibiotic pretreatment

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Published Online: 2019-01-23

Published Print: 2019-12

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Authors

Li, Wen

Yuan, Fang

Sun, Xiaolong

Zhao, Zhihan

Zhang, Yaoyao

Jiang, Wen
Funding

Funding for this research was provided by:

National Natural Science Foundation of China (81771406)

the Science and Technology Development Project of Shaanxi Province (2016SF-084)
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Received: 12 December 2018

Accepted: 11 January 2019

First Online: 23 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was based on a prospective non-interventional research on BM that registered inExternalRef removed(NCT02278016) and was approved by the ethics committee of Xijing Hospital (KY20140916-3). All procedures involving the patients complied with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and with the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.

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